Wednesday marked the beginning of Illinois new budget year, but after Governor Quinn vetoed a budget that would cut billions in social services, the state remains in limbo.

And area legislators have differing opinions on what exactly went wrong.

"We must not put off decisions till later in the summer or the fall, or next winter, that's not what adults do," said Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

Despite Governor Pat Quinn's efforts to provoke legislators to pass a balanced budget, by the close of session, social services in Illinois were still slated to lose billions.

"The Governor was right to veto that piece of legislation," said State Senator Dan Rutherford (R-Chenoa).

"Government does not have to shut down today, because the state has enough money to go for several weeks yet," said State Sentator David Koehler (D-Peoria).

But Rutherford says it was irresponsible for the Governor to just veto the bill, adding he should have called an immediate special session.

"Now what we've got is a joint proclamation by the democratic leaders to call us back into session on July 14th, that's almost two weeks away," he said.

And legislators across the aisles say it's unfortunate for all those dependant on social service dollars.

"People don't know how to plan their lives. Foster parents, I know, were contacted by DCFS yesterday saying their services are going to be cut off," said Koehler.

"You don't take 50 percent out of the hides of those people that are delivering services to the most vulnerable in our society," said Rutherford.

Quinn has long been saying a tax increase is necessary to remedy the situation, but Rutherford, who's opposed to a hike says a good temporary solution would be a bridge budget, or, basically, fund agencies statewide according to the last balanced budget. In this case, that would be fiscal year 2008.

"There was revenue to pay for it, everybody's not going to get what they had in '09 because it was out of balance. Everybody's not going to get what they want in '10 because there is no budget," he said.

Koehler says a temporary tax increase, could work, but there are too many unanswered questions to vote for one.

"We didn't get our job done, so when you want to put the blame, you put the blame on legislators and the Governor," he said.

Not many seem to know how this will turn out, but the General Assembly will hold a special session July 14th to possibly override the Governor's veto.