Next year's budget is supposed to be in place by today, July 1, the beginning of a new fiscal year. The state faces a $15.2 billion deficit and it doesn’t seem as though we are going to come up with a plan to close it anytime soon."We're not going to make the deadline," Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines declared.In part, he blamed Democrats for sticking to a plan to raise taxes -- $11 billion in the Senate and $6 billion in the Assembly -- for stalling talks. He called such figures "totally unfounded and out of touch with reality."

"We understand the budget is a compromise. Being in the minority, we understand that," Villines said. "But we're having a difficult time getting our counterparts to really change their original premise on the budget, which is, 'We need taxes. We need to continue spending in government and that's the budget that we want.'""I keep waiting for that to end so we can get to where we are seriously negotiating," he added. "We haven't gotten there."

Here are the current players and the budget references  and progress  to date.