On May 6th, without involving NY Senate and Assembly leadership, Governor Hochul lied to New Yorkers’ faces, claiming she had reached a “handshake” deal on the state budget. Her proposed budget fails to tax the rich, fails to deliver truly universal childcare with good wages for workers, and fails to block local law enforcement from colluding with ICE. Hochul wants us to think this budget is a done deal. It isn’t. The window is still open for us to win the key items our state desperately needs...but only if we act NOW.  

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What you need to know about Hochul’s proposed budget:

• It includes no new income or corporate taxes, just the pied-à-terre tax on second homes, which will not generate anywhere near enough revenue to fund the care economy we need.
• It fails to adequately respond to Trump’s cuts to the Essential Plan and Medicaid – and one million New Yorkers are at risk of losing their healthcare on July 1st.
• It claims to invest in childcare but refuses to fund the workforce enough to deliver truly universal childcare. 
• It ends formal collaboration between state agencies and ICE but still allows local and state police departments to share information and informally collude with ICE.