As the budget year started most places Saturday, 11 states did not have budgets in place, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
Not all the budget fights are as dramatic as Republican Gov. Chris Christie's shutdown in New Jersey, or the granddaddy of spending disputes — the now more than two years Illinois has operated without a spending plan.
Many of the disputes are driven by ideological divides made worse by poor budget forecasting. Half of states received less in taxes than expected last fiscal year, the worst job of estimating since the tail end of the Great Recession, according to the budget officers association.
In some states like Wisconsin, the disagreement is whether to borrow money or raise taxes.
The states without a budget on July 1 are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin, while in Pennsylvania and Michigan the budget has passed the Legislature and is on the governor's desk.
A look at the problems blocking spending plans in several states and the potential consequences:
