The three-way haggling over the next state budget begins this week, as the Senate and Assembly leaders fight for vastly different agendas that each claims best serves the families of NY state. The initiative is supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat.
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Cuomo wants the law to cover the Legislature.
In one example, the AP requested information about the state’s response to Ebola in 2014.
“Everyone wants to lower the tax burden on the working men and women of NY”, said Mike Murphy, spokesman for the Senate Democrats.
The Assembly’s budget backs that schedule, with a couple tweaks.
“What we’re looking for is a logical discussion about the minimum wage increase, knowing both sides of what will happen and not just some progressive, political concept that is sweeping the nation”, DeFrancisco is shown telling a crowd in his video. She said she can’t pay her rent making $10 an hour. “So all of those things will be part of the discussion going forward”.
At the beginning of the Senate’s vote Monday, Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, knocked the state’s budget process, which is usually fueled by closed-door talks between Cuomo, Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx. “I hope that in the remaining time left we can open up this process and allow all New Yorkers to see what we are doing on their behalf”.
A final budget is expected to be adopted before April 1.
The Republican majority in the state Senate projected there was an additional $752 million, while the Democratic majority in the Assembly projected an extra $679 million.
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Cusick said the Assembly also proposes to increase the maximum Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) award to $5,265 per student, an increase of $100 from the previous year.
