Even Santa may not be able to fulfill the Christmas wishes of schools and nonprofits across the commonwealth this year, as lawmakers on Monday acknowledged it would take a Christmas miracle to pass a state budget this week or next.

“I don’t think there’s any possible way of getting to the framework between now and Christmas or New Year’s,” Senate Republican lawyer Drew Crompton said in a Philly.com report. “We are where we are.”

Another budget framework hit significant turbulence and began to crumble on Saturday after the House of Representatives soundly rejected a proposed reshaping of state and public school workers’ pensions, a key component of the latest highly-touted compromise.

The House may now attempt to ditch that framework and scramble together an 11-month Band-Aid.

“If I was a betting man, right now I would lean toward an 11-month stopgap,” Rep. Bill Adolph said in the article.

Except for the fact that Senate leaders prefer a full budget and Gov. Tom “Wolf has also long opposed stopgap plans, having vetoed one passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in September,” the report stated.

“We need a full-year budget,” the governor’s spokesman Jeff Sheridan said. “We’re entering the week of Christmas — we need to get this done now.”

Read more about the current state of budget talks on Philly.com here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of the ongoing budget impasse here.