Ohio's budget will not meet its deadline for the first time in almost two decades.

Lawmakers trying to balance the state's $54 billion budget agreed to an interim budget Monday that will give them another week to work out an impasse over a proposal to legalize slot machines at seven horse racetracks.

But this stopgap resolution appeared unlikely Monday, as a third day of scheduled compromise talks was canceled.

A story from the AP says, Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has sought to force reticent Senate Republicans into supporting his plan to raise $933 million with lottery-run video slot machines, filling a portion of the projected $3.2 billion budget deficit.

Senate President Bill Harris has fought back with steadfast assurances that Strickland has the authority to authorize the game without legislative help.

Ohio voters have rejected expanded gambling at the polls four times in the past 20 years. A poll taken earlier this year, however, indicated 60 percent support legalizing casino gaming.

Strickland pointed to seven Senate Republicans, including Harris, who voted to require video racing terminals at the state's seven racetracks in 2007. The governor said he couldn't see any major moral difference between the two issues and that the senators were playing politics.

Republicans lobbed back that it was Strickland, not them, who was the one being political _ requiring them to cast a vote on the politically volatile slots plan that he initially intended to authorize without them.

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