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New York’s state constitution requires that the legislature and the governor pass a budget by April 1st. That has not happened, as lawmakers and the governor continue to negotiate issues in the $217 billion budget that will affect millions of New Yorkers.
Thousands of pages of the 10billsthatcomprise the state budget have already been published for legislators and the public to hastily review. This language has been hashed out in meetings of the leaders of the two houses Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose negotiating power has been diminished due to the mounting investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct and the mishandling of nursing home deaths caused by COVID-19.
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Cuomo’s $1.3B for Penn Station work can’t go to towers
Lawmakers put damper on plans for PENN 15 development New York /
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s request for $1.3 billion in funding to redevelop Penn Station is getting approved, but not without some major restrictions.
A budget bill introduced Tuesday specifies that the money can be used for “transportation improvement projects” but not for “above-grade development,” the New York Daily News reported.
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