ALBANY, N.Y. — With a week-late $220 billion budget in the books, Gov. Kathy Hochul spent Monday hosting a pair of labor-focused campaign rallies in the city.
Hochul’s election-year spending plan includes accelerated middle-class tax breaks, a gas tax holiday, and other items sure to bring some economic relief to the average New Yorker as she seeks a full term in office.
The Democratic governor, however, is taking heat from her primary opponents over everything from changes to the state’s bail laws, an 11th-hour taxpayer subsidy for a new Buffalo Bills stadium, and the less-than-transparent nature of the negotiations.
