ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With the new state budget in Democrat-dominated New York approved this week, the state’s top Republican declared victory on many of his party’s priorities: no tax increases, curbed spending, support for businesses and protecting state aid for suburban schools.

Everyone in the Republican-controlled Senate was invited over for drinks by Democratic Gov.Andrew Cuomo to celebrate the $142 billion spending plan after they approved it by the Tuesday midnight deadline, Majority Leader Dean Skelos said.

“This fifth consecutive on-time budget builds upon the progress we are making to revitalize the state’s economy and spend only what taxpayers can afford,” Skelos said.

The Democratic-controlled Assembly, however, slogged on past the midnight deadline. Several majority Democrats in the so-called “people’s chamber” defended the final budget as less bad than it could have been.

Some Democratic priorities — such as further boosts in the minimum wage, paid family leave and college aid for immigrant students — didn’t make the cut.

“You play the hand you’re dealt,” Assembly member Deborah Glick said.

The budget includes spending a $5.4 billion windfall from bank settlements, with some $1.5 billion for upstate economic development projects and $150 million for Long Island, $500 million to extend broadband service to more rural areas, $900 million for the new Tappan Zee Bridge and $400 million to offset a possible Thruway toll hike.

Cuomo couched the results of the three-way negotiations in other terms, emphasizing revisions he pushed in teacher evaluations and reporting of legislators’ outside income. In a radio interview, he said it was one of his toughest budgets to negotiate because of opposition from the teachers’ unions that he called a formidable political force in Albany.

All three sides stressed the $1.4 billion increase in aid to public schools up to $23.5 billion. Cuomo said the budget overall continues to keep state spending increases under 2 percent.

On the far reaches of either side, however, the budget left much to be desired. On the right, the fiscally conservative Empire Center said the budget has doubled since 1985 when the state spent $71 billion, and that it will now spend $4,503 per second during the fiscal year that began Wednesday. On the left, the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins, who ran for governor last year, called it another austerity budget that dropped proposed social policy measures such as campaign finance and criminal justice reforms.

The Cuomo administration’s proposal to establish an independent monitor to review grand jury investigations of police who kill unarmed civilians was among the items left out. That issue got attention after a New York City police officer wasn’t indicted in the death last year of a Staten Island man who had been held in an apparent chokehold.

The governor used budget money to leverage some of his priorities, particularly his steps aimed at tougher teacher evaluations. Other proposals that were dealt away — including a future minimum wage increase to $10.50 statewide and $11.50 in New York City — may be reconsidered in the last three months of this year’s legislative session but without that same leverage.

Other issues expected to get attention include raising the current cap on charter schools, an education tax credit for supporting private schools and extending the rent controls in New York City that are scheduled to expire this year.

Sen. Adriano Espaillat introduced a budget amendment which would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $10.50 an hour and index it to inflation, while letting cities set separate minimums up to 30 percent higher. The Senate Republican majority voted it down, and he said it was time for those lawmakers to stand behind “a livable wage” that will actually lift workers out of poverty.

Mike Durant, New York director of the National Federation of Independent Business, said they were pleased lawmakers rejected significant proposals that would hurt small businesses and applauded the Senate Republicans’ “steadfast support in maintaining their position to reject yet another substantial increase in the minimum wage.”

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