Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are at a standstill over how to spend upwards of $252 billion in a state budget that’s already over a week late.

The negotiations continue amid economic uncertainty over tariffs, and federal cuts aimed at city and state programs.

Now, state elected officials are frustrated with Hochul, and this week, the relationship soured.

“I really wish that I could say we’re further along,” lamented Democratic State Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie went all but nuclear on Hochul’s negotiation tactics.

“The reason why budgets are late is because governors use the, in my opinion, the over-empowering that the Court of Appeals gave them, that they can pretty much throw in whatever they want

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