Republican lawmakers moved late Monday evening to send DFL Gov. Mark Dayton their own preferred budgets — abandoning, for now, attempts to find compromises in crafting Minnesota’s two-year, $46 billion budget.

The GOP budgets will have a short life if they end up on Dayton’s desk.

“I’d veto them all,” the governor said Tuesday morning. Dayton and his commissioners have broadly and specifically criticized their proposals — both for their lack of spending on programs he believes are critical and for policy provisions included alongside the money.

On Tuesday morning, Republican leaders said they needed to act because they had reached an impasse with Dayton.

“The conversations with the governor have been good, but we also don’t feel like the governor’s been working at a pace that’s quick enough to get the work done on time,” said House Speaker Kurt Daudt, a Crown-area Republican.

Dayton said the Monday night moves, which may be followed by quick passage of the measures on the House and Senate floors, could be a tactic.

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On Tuesday morning, Daudt and Republican Senate Leader Paul Gazelka, who lives near Nisswa, said Republicans are prepared to pass their budgets but could hit pause. Everything depends, they said, on how an early afternoon meeting with Dayton goes.

If the two sides make progress Tuesday, negotiations could resume. If they don’t, then Daudt said their budgets are “ready to be passed.”

“We’re not giving up, we’re just saying we’ve got to get moving,” Gazelka said.

The turn toward confrontation comes with just under two weeks left in the legislative session, and just under two months until any unfunded parts of the Minnesota state government would shut down. It immediately follows a brief meeting Monday afternoon, when Dayton made written offers to Republicans on several of the smaller parts of the budget.

In those offers — which covered only four of the state’s 10 budget areas — Dayton reduced his proposed spending by about $50 million. More than $350 million still separated the Democratic governor from the Republican legislators in those four parts of the budget.

“The steps were so small on the smallest bills that we didn’t know how we could possibly get there,” said Gazelka. “I think they were sincere first offers, but they were unacceptable and would not lead to getting done on time.”

Monday afternoon, upon leaving a meeting with Dayton, Gazelka and House Speaker Kurt Daudt said they planned to make a counteroffer Tuesday.

“I feel like the conversations are going well,” Daudt said Monday afternoon.

But good feelings seemed to be abandoned as evening came. After dark, with no budget hearings or advance notice, the Legislature finalized most of their budget measures for votes as soon as Tuesday, the precursor to delivering them to Dayton. The governor found out about the move Monday night from aides monitoring Twitter.

Specifically, legislative leaders had members of joint committees negotiating compromises on the budget sign off on GOP-written versions of the bills. Last week, committees had adopted the GOP language as a prelude to further talks with Dayton. But leaders said at the time that action wasn’t final.

Daudt has repeatedly said this year that he planned to conduct this year’s legislative session in an open and transparent manner, while Gazelka has said he wants to have a constructive relationship with Dayton and not pass bills the governor would veto.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk, a Democrat from near Cook, said the legislative action of this week may not be terribly consquential in the end.

“I actually believe this is just a sideshow,” he said.

Enacting another traditional legislative act, Dayton will go fishing with the Republican legislative leaders — and Gazelka’s daughter, Lydia — this weekend.

“We’re going to rely on Lydia Gazelka to be the peacemaker,” Dayton joked.