But as the stalemate dragged on and the increasingly disastrous effects of operating without a budget became clear, Andersson said sentiment shifted. At a mid-June town hall meeting he heard no support for a radical, spending-cuts-only budget or for continuing to operate without a budget, he said, and grudging acknowledgment, even from "superconservatives in the room," that bringing tax rates back nearly to where they were in 2014 was necessary to prevent a full-on meltdown of state finances.