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Hochul’s $9B surprise leaves New York facing a fiscal cliff

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“Apparently, Democrats had to pass the State Budget so they could find out what was in it”: So Ed Rau, the Assembly minority leader, slammed the after-the-fact revelation that the just-passed spending bills actually mean $277 billion in outlays, not the $268 billion Gov. Kathy Hochul’s team originally claimed.

The stealth spike stunned everyone else — and there’s absolutely no doubt Hochul & Co. knew the truth all along.

After all, the money to cover the extra spending will come from a federal fund, and the feds OK’d the move as early as March 20.

Hochul & Co. just didn’t want the public to see the true bottom line — an increase of $23........

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