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Posted on 03/31/2026 3:33:07 PM PDT by Libloather
ALBANY – State lawmakers will blow past Wednesday’s deadline to pass Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $263 billion budget plan, as negotiations drag on over her push to delay green energy mandates and her bid to lower car insurance premiums.
Democrats in the state Assembly and Senate passed a one-week stopgap measure Tuesday keeping the government funded through next week amid the largely-stalled discussions between Hochul and legislative leaders.
“We’re still at the beginning of the middle, as it turns out,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) said, using a stale Albany adage to indicate the discussions have not moved much since they began in earnest about two weeks ago.
Stewart-Cousins indicated to reporters that the main issues holding up the talks were the non-fiscal policy-related items that Hochul pitched in her massive spending package proposal.
Sources familiar with the talks said the major sticking points were Hochul’s bid to delay the potentially crushing financial impacts of New York’s climate mandates and her proposal to change liability standards for insurance payouts after serious car accidents.
All of Hochul’s budgets so far have been late, marking five consecutive years of the state blowing past the April 1 deadline. Last year’s budget was only passed on May 8.
Republicans, who are mostly kept out of budget negotiations, derided the process as, once again, “crazy.”
“There doesn’t seem to be any desire, any urgency, to meet this deadline, which is crazy to me given that we’re in year eight of one-party control here in Albany,” Assembly Minority Leader Ed Ra (R-Nassau) told reporters.
Stewart-Cousins said discussions on monetary issues – including the Dems’ push to raise taxes – have yet to seriously come up in the three-way talks.
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100% rat government.
Fracturing.
Pretty bad when Marxists can’t agree on how to screw their constituents.
RAISE TAXES BIGLY!
A big part of the super rich in New York have fled to Florida taking a big chunk of New York tax base with them.
NY State is dependent on Fed.gov handouts to keep its prog-welfare-bureaucrat-industrial complex running.
Which means YOU outside of NY State also get to pay for it, via more Fed.gov debt, inflation and currency debasement.
So Shumer/Jeffries Democrats can’t make it work when they control everything? It isn’t just a DC issue?
I filed my tax returns a month ago. Federal refund came two weeks ago. Still waiting on NY.
HA haaaaaas! So this is DemonicRAT on DemonicRAT negotiations? New Yorkers are so screwed.
$263 billion for about 20 million people. $13,000 per person - WTF are they spending it all on?
“WTF are they spending it all on?”
Themselves - no other explanation necessary.
“$263 billion for about 20 million people. $13,000 per person - WTF are they spending it all on?”
Texas is about $11,000 per person.
“Texas is about $11,000 per person.”
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I don’t think that your figure is accurate. According to the following website, Text is spending per resident in 2024 was a bit under $4700. Our state budget is about the same as New York’s, but we have about 70% more people. https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator/per-capita-state-spending/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
“I don’t think that your figure is accurate. According to the following website, Text is spending per resident in 2024 was a bit under $4700.”
My numbers are accurate.
“Our state budget is about the same as New York’s, but we have about 70% more people.”
The Texas budget is 35% larger than New York’s.
Texas population is 55% larger than NY’s.
“I don’t think that your figure is accurate. According to the following website, Text is spending per resident in 2024 was a bit under $4700.”
That was for 2024.
Texas Budget was $321 billion.
Texas Population was 31 million.
That is $10,350 per person.
Think the Texas budget is for two years. If so then the Texas budget and FL budget are about the same at around $115b, both far below the NY state budget. Hell, I think the NYC budget is bigger than FL or TX.
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