CONTACT: Mariah McGough, mariah@vocal-ny.org 

VOCAL-NY RESPONDS TO GOV. HOCHUL BUDGET LETTER DIRECTING STATE AGENCIES TO DO MORE WITH LESS FUNDING

NEW YORK — Yesterday, Governor Hochul’s Division of Budget sent a letter to New York State agency commissioners calling for “new revenues to backfill unanticipated losses.” In response, VOCAL-NY released the follow statement, attributable to Nick Encalada-Malinowski, Civil Rights Campaign Director of VOCAL-NY:

“By requiring state agencies to cut programs that everyday New Yorkers rely on, while also slashing regulations for the benefit of corporations doing business with the state, Kathy Hochul is once again demonstrating that low-income New Yorkers are not part of her affordability agenda. She is seeking to fill a $3 billion budget gap that, ironically, she helped create with her sales tax rebate boondoggle which gave $200 million to Trump, up to $400 each to wealthy New Yorkers yet intentionally excluded more than 1 million of the poorest New Yorkers from receiving any benefit at all.”

###