New York state budget deal stalls as negotiations continue
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Updated · Spectrum News · May 6
New York state budget deal stalls as negotiations continue
6 articles · Updated · Spectrum News · May 6
More than five weeks late, a planned Wednesday evening announcement was scrapped as Hochul, Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Carl Heastie kept negotiating in Albany.
Sticking points included New York City's pied-a-terre tax and aid, upstate municipal assistance, Tier 6 pension changes, and unresolved education and healthcare spending.
Leaders say there is broad conceptual agreement on Hochul's four main policy proposals, but their fiscal links have complicated her usual phased budget process and frustrated Democratic lawmakers.
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