Source: Bloomberg CityLab
Author: unknown
Date published: 2025-08-08
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New York state’s cumulative three-year budget gap has swelled to $34 billion, rising 25% from Governor Kathy Hochul’s estimate in January as federal funding slows, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.
The projected deficit as a share of total spending would be the biggest since the financial crisis in 2009, DiNapoli said in a report Friday. The shortfall is driven by spending growth in Medicaid and education, and as New York and other states grapple with billions of dollars in cuts to safety-net programs from President Donald Trump’s budget and spending bill.
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