budget

With New York facing a $10 to $15 billion dollar deficit, and a steep drop in revenue with almost all businesses closed, the governor says he has few choices.

“People are dying, people are losing their jobs, businesses are folding. That ought not be reason for politicians to figure out a way to give themselves a little extra money in their campaign coffers."

“The bail reform that we did last year I’m very proud of, and I think we made the right change now.”

“The budget that we are passing is not the budget that any of us had hoped to pass at the beginning of this session."

“If money comes in during the course of the year, we’ll spend it. If we actually lose money, we have to adjust it. That’s life. We can’t spend what we don’t have.”

"Not moving to legalize cannabis through the budget process right now … it makes sense."

"We have to make drastic cuts to the budget. Like you have never seen."

New York's governor wants to pass the budget by April 1 and then update the state spending plan quarterly.

Several New York lawmakers called the governor's proposal a blatant "cost shift" to local governments.

“The process is rigged to advance the governor’s agenda, undermine the role of the legislature, and distract from the hard financial choices that need to be made this year."