ALBANY — The wreckage of Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is raining debris across the statehouse, leaving the relationship between the city’s leader and state lawmakers in tatters and threatening to throw budget talks into further disarray.

Barely concealing their joy at having defied the will of a mayor who used his fortune and influence to try to build support for the overriding priority of his second term, Assembly Democrats stomped on the ashes of the plan, which they buried without even a public vote on the chamber floor. Mr. Bloomberg, who promoted his plan for charging workday motorists $8 to drive into much of Manhattan as both a solution to the city’s traffic woes and a steady revenue stream to advance mass transit projects, responded to the defeat with fury, painting Democrats and their leader, Speaker Sheldon Silver, as small-minded cowards.

“It takes true leadership and courage to embrace new concepts and ideas and to be willing to try something. Unfortunately, both are lacking in the Assembly today,” he said in a statement. “If that wasn’t shameful enough, it takes a special type of cowardice for elected officials to refuse to stand up and vote their conscience — on an issue that has been debated, and amended significantly to resolve many outstanding issues, for more than a year.”

Seemingly lost in the drama was the state of this year’s fiscal budget, which lawmakers have battled over in secret meetings that have yielded little resolution. As of last night, they hadn’t agreed to major components of this year’s spending plan, including revenue and education bills.

Lawmakers have pointed to several sticking points — among them are Senate Republican demands for sunset measures on new targeted business taxes; a dispute over a proposal that would prohibit the city Department of Education from using student test score data as a factor for determining teacher tenure decisions, and a tussle over the distribution of capital funds — and each house has blamed the other for holding up talks.

Governor Paterson, a former lieutenant governor who took office less than a month ago, has limited himself to brief public appearances in the last week and has refused to discuss specifics of the negotiations.

Yesterday, as some lawmakers wondered whether the state was headed toward a budget stalemate that would last for weeks if not months, the governor remained secluded in his executive chamber suite and refused to address reporters.

“We need some leadership from the governor,” a Republican senator of Brooklyn, Martin Golden, said.

Toward the end of the day, Mr. Paterson called legislative leaders into his office for an emergency meeting whose purpose was ostensibly to talk about whether they would give congestion pricing another look. Lawmakers said Mr. Paterson was making another attempt to get budget talks under control. “The obvious emergency is that we’re here about a week from the deadline … so I guess the governor wants to bring out the whip he was talking about and give us a few lashes,” the Republican minority leader of the Assembly, James Tedisco, said.

The Republican majority leader of the Senate, Joseph Bruno, told reporters afterward that lawmakers and the governor are “trying to finish the mechanics of what he had conceptually agreed on several days ago.” A spokesman for Mr. Bruno, John McArdle, said hopes for a budget resolution were uncertain. “It’s like asking me what’s going to happen in the Yankees game tomorrow. They should win, but they may not,” he said.

For much of the day, lawmakers treated congestion pricing like a game of political hot potato. After Assembly Democrats refused to touch it, the question became whether the Senate would give Mr. Bloomberg a symbolic, if hollow, victory by voting on the measure. Senate Republicans found themselves caught in an awkward position. They didn’t want to disappoint a mayor who has been an important political patron, but also didn’t want to submit their members to a vote on an issue that could haunt them at the polls in November.

For a moment, it looked as if Senate Republicans, who claimed to have enough votes to pass the mayor’s plan, might put it on the floor. The prospect was real enough to rattle the nerves of Senate Democrats, who camped out in a conference room and refused to take their seats in the chamber until they felt confident enough that Republicans wouldn’t spring the bill on them.

After several hours of bluffs, name calling, and confusion, both conferences met to pass an emergency $81 million appropriations bill to keep government operating for another week.

“They are playing are these childish games, not willing to come out on the floor. They shouldn’t act like children,” Mr. Bruno said. He said the Senate would have voted on congestion pricing “if it served any meaningful purpose.”