{"id":519340,"date":"2026-01-16T02:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:36:13","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-react-to-hochuls-state-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519340\/","title":{"rendered":"New York lawmakers react to Hochul&#8217;s State of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s office released a notice cheering over 200 proposals, her gubernatorial opponents instead pointed to what Hochul left out of her fifth State of the State address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t hear the governor talk about protecting our immigrant community and supporting New York for all,\u201d Lt. Gov. and Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado said. \u201cI didn\u2019t hear a commitment to child care that is statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s got an election coming up, and I think ultimately she will do what she needs to do to stay in office,\u201d Democratic Brooklyn Assemblymember Emily Gallagher said.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s office released a notice cheering over 200 proposals, her gubernatorial opponents instead pointed to what Hochul left out of her fifth State of the State address on Tuesday<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Hochul\u2019s Republican challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, called the speech \u201cbasically a record of failure,\u201d while her Lt. Gov. and primary challenger, Antonio Delgado, challenged her from the left<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Officials in Hochul&#8217;s administration defended the governor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s Republican challenger, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, called the speech \u201cbasically a record of failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul omitted whether she thinks Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be granted mayoral control over the city\u2019s school system, which is typically a major tenant of any Big Apple mayor\u2019s education platform. Mamdani opposed the policy, but now says he supports it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, we\u2019d have to see what form we are looking at, what changes have been made. The last two times mayoral control has come up, they added a whole bunch of new, what I would say, bureaucratic processes that have not been helpful,\u201d Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said when asked if Mamdani should get the full four years of mayoral control or a clipped amount like de Blasio and Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Some city lawmakers weighed in on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll have to negotiate,\u201d Democratic Queens Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis budget focuses on making 3-K universal, so we\u2019re not fighting over vouchers, we\u2019re not fighting over funding, we\u2019re actually putting seats in districts where it matters the most and everywhere else,\u201d Democratic Queens Assemblymember Nily Rozic said.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hochul\u2019s team is keen to report taxes are not on the table so far in the 2026 to 2027 financial plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not necessary,\u201d Blake Washington, director of the NYS Division of the Budget, said of new taxes in this year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s legislative allies and fellow Democratic Socialists disagree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think she has been a good ally in the state legislature, especially her continued capitulation to the rich over working-class New Yorkers,\u201d Democratic Brooklyn Assemblymember Jabari Brisport said.<\/p>\n<p>Brisport questioned future funding of the new \u201c2-CARE\u201d program for two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially hearing her say she only wants to pay for the first two years of the initiative in New York City, that\u2019s a major concern for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Others want more focus on the city\u2019s current free childcare program for three-year-olds, highlighting parent frustration over existing issues like the limited number of open seats in high-demand neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that families like mine are feeling the city because childcare is so expensive,\u201d Rozic said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also failed to mention the state consistently missing greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that have been in state law since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>One Hochul official defended the slow pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to plan against a future of realism, and realism means that diverse energy sources are necessary to preserve those outcomes,\u201d Doreen Harris, president and CEO of the NYS Energy Research and Development Authority, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Gov. 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