The $252 billion proposal represents the largest spending plan of Hochul’s tenure and includes a pledge to modestly decrease the tax rate on households making under $323,200 a year. She has also proposed an expansion of a child tax credit for those with children under 4 years old.

New York is keeping secret its plan for new taxes and fees to fund $33 billion for the flailing Metropolitan Transportation Authority even as Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to propose her budget this week.

Kathy Hochul proposed a $252 billion budget on Tuesday that calls for extending a tax hike on millionaires and increasing spending on Medicaid. But her plan omits specifics about how she will work with lawmakers to shore up the finances of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and declines to send the city any new funding for the migrant crisis.

Gov. Hochul on Tuesday proposed a steep hike in state spending while leaving a lot of the details on funding to be worked out in negotiations with the state Legislature.Hochul’s

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her support for congestion pricing after NYS Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay questioned how her congestion pricing initi

Although there was over $9 billion allotted for various transportation initiatives, the $252 billion fiscal year 2026 executive budget did not mention any funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2025-2029 capital plan.

Affordability. That subject — encompassing a myriad of pocketbook issues spanning from housing to child care — was a major theme in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s fourth State of the State address on Tuesday in the Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre at The Egg in Albany.

Gov. Kathy Hochul greeted commuters on the platform at Jamaica before speaking to Newsday on her train trip about congestion pricing and transit safety.

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski called Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $252 billion executive budget proposal, which she unveiled Tuesday, “grossly irresponsible” and in direct contradiction of her pledge to make New

The plan, which launched on Jan. 5, newly charges passenger vehicles $9 to access Manhattan below 60th Street during peak hours.

PLATTSBURGH — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed budget for 2025/26 has drawn mixed reactions from North County officials.