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“It’s cynical and it’s kind of a projection of fearfulness rather than strength,” John Kaehny, Executive Director of good government group Reinvent Albany, told The Post.

Hochul’s executive proposal is $19 billion or 8.3% higher than last year’s proposal and $36 billion or 16% higher than her first plan in 2022.

Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her $252 billion budget proposal stuffed with handouts on Tuesday — but she's already blaming the Trump's administration if there are issues propping up the spending plan.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $252 billion budget plan provides a one-time $1,200 bonus to pregnant welfare moms when they have a baby.

Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed phone ban in New York schools would launch at the start of the next school year and require most devices be stored away until dismissal.

Hochul and her top advisors are standing by the payroll services overhaul for the consumer directed personal assistance program, or CDPAP, after moving to consolidate approximately 700 firms into one hand-picked company to pay people to take care of older relatives in last year's budget deal.

New York lawmakers are set to weigh a bill that would increase penalties for mask-wearing creeps even as Hochul appears to have abandoned the effort she'd backed as the city saw a wave of antisemitic incidents last year.

President Trump is considering appointing former upstate Rep. Marc Molinaro to run the federal agency that oversees public transit – a move that could spell trouble for Manhattan's unpopular congestion toll.

0 seconds of 1 minute, 10 seconds Volume 0% Gov. Kathy Hochul promised a public “list” that would outline how New York would cooperate

President Trump's long-promised ICE raids on the Big Apple drew outrage from prominent progressive city pols — who blasted Mayor Eric Adams' “lack of leadership” Tuesday.