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Albany saved some of its ugliest budget poison for last

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature’s leaders saved the worst for last: The final bits of their budget deals include some truly ugly idiocy.

Beyond the budget’s obscene $268.5 billion bottom line is election-year pandering to special interests and ideological extremes, all at the public’s expense.

In a fit of moral preening, the state’s Democratic leaders imposed a package of anti-ICE measures banning immigration-cooperation by local law enforcement and prohibiting local jails from holding lawbreakers on behalf of ICE.

They also banned banning mask-wearing by federal agents (while refusing to do anything about masked rioters). 

Add robbery in plain sight: Hochul handed the state’s........

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