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With dual nursing home and sexual harassment scandals engulfing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, combined with still-high rates of COVID-19 and a sometimes chaotic vaccination program, one might forget that a state budget is due in less than a month. This budget season may present an unprecedented opportunity for Democratic supermajorities in both chambers to flex their influence in the traditionally executive-heavy process. But even with an emboldened Legislature and a potentially weakened governor, Cuomo still holds most of the cards in negotiations.
Much remains unknown about this year’s budget dealings, and not only because the state is in such unprecedented times. Neither chamber has even passed their one-house budgets, the nonbinding resolutions in which legislative leaders lay out their own priorities and the changes (usually more spending) they want to see in the executive budget. And that’s where the negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assemb