It took nearly three weeks past the deadline, but New York State finally has the next fiscal year’s budget in place. Assembly Speaker, Democrat Carl Heastie, said the $237 billion spending plan includes funding for affordable housing, increases in TAP funding to put higher education within reach of more students, and investments in hospitals and nursing homes. State Senator, Democrat James Skoufis of Orange County, slammed Governor Kathy Hochul for not taking care of the communities decimated by last summer’s heavy rainstorm, despite her promises…
Hochul says the budget includes transformative investments in health care and education that will put New York on the path to fiscal stability. The budget now heads to her desk to be approved.