Nearly $10 billion — that’s the likely difference in spending and taxes between a version of the state budget passed by Senate Democrats last month and one that Assembly Republicans have pledged to pass today.
That figure released Monday by the Legislature’s budget office, equal to about one-sixth the total state budget and likely the largest gap ever between such proposals, underscored the “great chasm” that separates the leaders from the two parties that control the two houses of the state Legislature.