A resolution of the state budget crisis remained elusive after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a budget bill on Wednesday that included huge funding shortfalls for social service programs.

The governor’s veto came one day after U.S. District Judge John F. Grady issued an order requiring the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to maintain services to children and families that were to be cut from the state budget.

The spending cuts would be felt by thousands of clients of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria. The agency is facing the loss of about $6 million in funding, which could result in the elimination or sharp reduction of programs including foster care, adoption respite and delinquency intervention services.

The state’s proposed service reductions would violate a long-standing federal court consent decree, Grady said in his ruling.

The vetoed budget also included a $9 billion deficit, but state legislators failed to approve an income tax increase recommended by the governor.

“We are gravely concerned by the lack of decision-making and continue to ask people to pray for our lawmakers that they agree upon a sustainable budget for all citizens of Illinois,” said Celeste Matheson, director of communications for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria.

Until the budget impasse ends, agencies like Catholic Charities as well as their clients are “still in a holding pattern,” Matheson said.

Quinn cited Grady’s order in promising on Tuesday to veto any budget that does not fund key services. Dubbing the proposed spending plan “the Doomsday Budget,” social service advocates had warned that the cuts could force foster parents to return children to DCFS and eliminate the state’s safety net for at-risk children and families.

State lawmakers announced Wednesday that the Illinois General Assembly would be called back into a special budget session on Tuesday, July 14, but Quinn said he hoped a budget deal could be arranged before then.