Pawlenty: Today is make or break

Governor Tim Pawlenty just told reporters that he feels budget negotiations are in a good enough place to have a deal in place by the end of the weekend:

"There aren't big disputes, philosophical disputes, left. Those have mostly been hammered out. Now it's just a matter of we have too many requests and not enough money to pay for them all. So we either have to shrink the requests for lose a few of them."

I'm told that they're ready to go back into budget negotiations.