
The Big Ugly Mess Behind New York's Busted Budget Process
The Hell Gate Podcast
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Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic Budget Process
In New York, Democrats have won majorities in the past decade. So why does this system continue? Basically Trump gets elected in 2016. Democrats mobilize and defeat the Democrats that Andrew Cuomo has gotten to give power to Republicans. And then in 2018, Democrats get total control of the governorship, the state Senate and the state assembly. Shouldn't that mean that they can begin legislating now instead of going to this weird budget process? Right. Yeah. I mean, you would think so, but there's a guy named Andrew Cuomo in there and he does not like the idea of a fast moving progressive state legislature. He pulls off a bunch of like really wild tricks to bottle up legislation into
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