Governor Andrew Cuomo released the above video message the morning of Wednesday, March 23, and later backed up his suggestion that he might try to push through a budget proposal without full agreement from the State Senate or Assembly. The former's Majority Leader, Dean Skelos, said he'd make surer Senate Republicans support the Governor's pushing of a budget through what they call extender legislation but cautioned that, “If you have power, I don’t think you have to flaunt it. We all understand that the governor has a tremendous amount of power… The idea of leadership is to get a result, and that’s where we are.” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, reacting to both Cuomo's statement and Skelos suggestion that he's do anything to put the blame for a government shutdown on Assembly Democrats, said of the governor, "I don’t know what motivates him to make those statements. I think we are very close, period... As far as I’m concerned, I have negotiated with the governor, continue to do that and don’t understand his comments.”