Virginia has three months before the current two-year state budget ends and a new one begins — if Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the General Assembly can reach an agreement to avoid an unprecedented shutdown of state government.

Virginia governors and legislatures have come close to constitutional crisis before with no way to fund the government without a new two-year budget in place by July 1.

But this time the Republican governor and Democratic-controlled legislature are barely talking to each other after a politically calamitous week.

Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.