Missouri lawmakers have passed a budget that could force Governor Jay Nixon to choose between aiding children and aiding low-income seniors. The package assumes more than $55 million of savings by eliminating tax breaks for low-income seniors and spends it on early childhood programs for the developmentally disabled.

Lawmakers have gone home for a three-day weekend before wrapping up the 2013 legislative session.

The House and Senate both scrapped a potential Friday session after they completed work Thursday on the budget. They had faced a constitutional deadline to send the governor a budget by 6 p.m. Friday.

The Legislature must wrap up work on other bills by 6 p.m. on May 17.

Lawmakers have already sent Gov.Nixon a potential $700 million income tax cut.

Next week, legislators are expected to consider a measure to revamp Missouri’s tax credit programs. The plan under negotiation would pare back existing tax breaks for historic buildings and low-income housing while creating new several new business incentives.