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HOCHUL'S BUDGET PROPOSALS MEET SOME RESISTANCE IN NY'S LEGISLATURE


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Jan 17, 2024 — by Karen DeWitt (NYS Capitol Correspondent)
Gov. Kathy Hochul presents the Fiscal Year 2025 Executive Budget in the Red Room
at the State Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Photo: Mike Groll/Office of Governor
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Jan 17, 2024 —

Governor Kathy Hochul’s new budget plan, released earlier this week, holds the
line on spending increases. But it might hit some headwinds in the State
Legislature.

While Hochul is a Democrat, and both houses of the Legislature are led by
Democrats, the governor’s budget is not guaranteed to be an easy sell to the
Senate and Assembly. 

One item expected to meet resistance is the governor’s proposal to keep state
aid flat for some suburban and rural school districts.  

Hochul and her budget office managed to close a $4.3 billion projected deficit
by tamping down the rate of spending growth in education and other areas.   


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“It’s a lot more pleasant to say yes to everybody,” Hochul said. “But now we’re
called upon to make the tough decisions.”  

Hochul is proposing an increase of $825 million for schools. But that’s far less
than the record spending over the previous two years, and she wants to funnel
much of those funds to the state's poorest schools, many of them in New York’s
cities. The plan would end the decades-long tradition known as “hold harmless,”
which ensures that no school district, even the state’s wealthiest, will ever
get less money in the state budget than it did in the previous year.  

“As much as we may want to, we are not going to be able to replicate the massive
increases of the last two years,” Hochul said. “No one could have expected the
massive jumps in aid to recur annually.”  

The Republican minority leader in the Senate, Robert Ortt, says some GOP
senators who represent suburban and rural districts object to the proposal. He
says he believes it’s no coincidence that the school districts that are less
likely to receive cuts are represented by Democrats in the Legislature.    

“It's all rural and suburban districts that are going to see cuts in spending,
in some cases drastically, and not to cities,” Ortt said. “And that, to me,
really smacks of hypocrisy, but it also smacks of partisanship.” 

Ortt predicts that some Democratic senators who represent suburban districts
will also be opposed to the idea. 

“If the governor's plan is taken at face value, I have to believe that my
colleagues on the other side of the aisle are going to have something to say
about this,” Ortt said.   

Advocates for school funding that have been closely allied with Democrats in the
Legislature, including the New York State United Teachers union, are also
against ending “hold harmless.” In a statement, NYSUT President Melinda Person
says the “critical need to consistently support our students and educators
should not vary with the fluctuations in our state tax revenue.”  

Senate Democratic Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins sought to minimize any
potential friction over the proposal and other items in the budget, including
the governor’s plan to trim $1 billion out of the Medicaid budget. It comes as
the state’s safety net hospitals say they are nearing financial ruin due to low
Medicaid reimbursement rates. Stewart-Cousins says everything will be discussed.
  

“We’re going to talk about her approaches to a lot of things in the budget,”
Stewart-Cousins said. “That's why this is going to be an exciting season. We
can't wait."

In a few weeks, the Senate and Assembly will present their own budget
counterproposals. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he’s not ruling out some
changes after he’s gone through the spending proposal with his Democratic
members. That may include spending increases and raising revenues, possibly
through tax increases for the wealthy. 

“I have to see what the spending, the wish list is,” Heastie said, “and then we
have to try to see if we have enough revenue to match it.” 

Any proposals for tax hikes will also likely create a budget roadblock. Hochul
has already said she will not accept any new tax hike proposals, saying New
Yorkers’ taxes are already high enough. 






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