The state Assembly and Senate completed work on its $132.5 billion state budget early Thursday morning, March 31. Stephanie Lee of the Times Union reports that the Senate passed the budget at about midnight and the Assembly followed at 1 a.m. while protesters in the halls of the capital, and all members of the public, were barred from each chambers' viewing galleries. Now, the plan's many cuts, and the budget process, are drawing press releases and comments from a wide range of protesting organizations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, released his own video speech about what happened. It's the first time the process has finished earlier than its April 1 deadline since his father, Mario Cuomo, was in office.