New York’s governor presented her next year’s budget proposal, which lawmakers will wrestle over for the next two months, give or take. Governor Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion spending plan would spend $337 million to reduce and prevent gun violence, provides $30 billion to combat climate change, and another $1 billion to improve hospitals and other health care facilities…
In a statement, Rockland State Senator Bill Weber said he and his Republican colleagues would do “everything possible to whittle away at this gigantic spending plan.” State lawmakers will be debating the budget over the next two months and are expected to pass it on or before April first.