NY’s Very Late, Very Opaque, Very Trump-Addled Budget

Month-Late, Secret Budget Is Cynical Albany at Its Worst - Reinvent Albany

In healthy democracies, the ruling party does not delay the budget by a month to make all decisions in a back room, then rush a vote using “emergency powers.”   New York’s budget is a month late, but that’s nothing – it’s also chock full of policy items decided on in complete secrecy by the ruling Democratic party majority. Compounding this furtive farce, New York Democrats will likely print thousands of pages of budget bills on Wednesday night …

NY’s Very Late, Very Opaque, Very Trump-Addled Budget

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