Disputes over New York’s climate laws and auto insurance are forcing the state’s Democratic governor and legislative leaders to miss yet another deadline to pass a state budget Monday, delaying action on their shared affordability agenda.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, all moderate Democrats, are the state’s most powerful elected officials. But they have had to extend the April 1 budget deadline four times, underscoring intraparty divisions over Hochul’s policies ahead of the midterm elections and setting the stage for a fifth stopgap funding measure.
Negotiations have stalled regarding Hochul’s proposal ...