New Yorkers overwhelmingly back changes to the state’s bail laws and increasing taxes on the wealthy as Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders attempt to hammer out a budget deal by Friday’s fiscal deadline, according to a new Siena College poll.
The governor’s fellow Democrats, who maintain a supermajority in the Legislature, put forth budget blueprints this week that reject many of the marquee proposals included in Hochul’s $227 billion executive budget.
The Democrat-dominated Assembly and Senate, in their one-house budgets, reject three of the most important policy priorities of the Democratic governor. Under well-established legal precedent, Kathy Hochul has the upper hand in the tug-of-war. She must put on her gloves and pull with all her might.
The head of 32BJ-SEIU, the largest service workers’ union in the country, is among those calling for fair wage and labor standards to be baked into plans to overhaul housing across the Empire State.