“I found it very concerning that the governor’s executive budget proposal was more focused on blaming and depending on the federal government, rather than possible solutions that could help us moving forward.

“If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – New York does not have a revenue problem, New York has a spending problem. It is not fiscally responsible to depend on the federal government to bail us out of a hole that has grown many years prior to the COVID-19 public health crisis. Local governments, school districts and other important programs that receive state assistance cannot continue being dragged down the path of fiscal ambiguity.

“We need details. We need figures. We need to be realistic.”

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