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Hochul’s biggest failure in her budget deal with NY lawmakers

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As part of her budget deal, Gov. Kathy Hochul managed to get lawmakers to agree to various reasonable demands unrelated to how much state government spends.

The governor was pushing back against personal-injury lawyers, environmentalists and NIMBY activists who’d made it tougher for New Yorkers to afford auto insurance, energy and housing, respectively.

Members of the Senate and Assembly haven’t worried enough about staged auto accidents, rolling blackouts or housing scarcity, so Hochul did.

If anything, she should’ve prosecuted a fiercer public case against affordability’s enemies and their Albany enablers.

But as for the actual budget — i.e., the state’s financial strategy for coming years?

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That’s another story.

Hochul essentially put state spending on autopilot when she issued her proposal in January, allowing already-bloated programs to swell further.

Wall Street had a better-than-expected 2025, so more tax revenue than forecast rolled into state coffers.

That allowed Hochul to avoid economizing seemingly anywhere.

Most of the budget now goes to just two areas: New York’s costliest-in-the-nation Medicaid program and aid for its........

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