{"id":1913189,"date":"2023-04-11T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nicole-gelinas-kathy-hochuls-quixotic-budget-quest-shows-the-system-isnt-working\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T20:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:59:55","slug":"nicole-gelinas-kathy-hochuls-quixotic-budget-quest-shows-the-system-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nicole-gelinas-kathy-hochuls-quixotic-budget-quest-shows-the-system-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Gelinas: Kathy Hochul\u2019s Quixotic Budget Quest Shows the System Isn\u2019t Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnicole-gelinas-kathy-hochuls-quixotic-budget-quest-shows-the-system-isnt-working%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>For over two decades, New York governors have successfully used the state-budget process to introduce significant policy reform with little government opposition. However, this practice came into question with Governor Kathy Hochul\u2019s first proposed budget as elected leader. Governor Hochul included too much in her budget and has thus far failed to implement it. The state\u2019s legislative process for enacting laws is supposed\u00a0to run as follows: laws should usually originate in the Legislature, and once a law passes both houses, the governor can sign it or veto it. Unlike other legal decisions, the governor proposes the budget, legislators make recommendations, and the governor amends it and sends it back to the Legislature. Nonetheless, in the last twenty years, governors have incorporated significant policies not related to\u00a0taxes or spending into the budget. This practice\u00a0has reduced the legislature\u2019s influence, and lawmakers now have little power to change the budget except for approving or rejecting it.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/NYPICHPDPICT000008304332.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s approach allowed his initiatives to make it into the state budget.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AP\/Seth Wenig<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, such a system\u00a0has become controversial, especially since laws such as bail reform and congestion pricing passed in the budget without sufficient public hearings or insight from lawmakers. New York\u2019s Governor Hochul used the budget to revise bail reform by granting judges increased discretion and intensified the pressure on suburbs to increase the number of residential housing units. However, it is apparent that Hochul\u2019s bid to coerce legislators to convince municipalities to supply housing has failed. Although the state is running on a temporary extension to last year\u2019s budget, the governor could attempt to force a shutdown if the Legislature does not relent. Such a move would negatively affect public opinion on building housing since it is not related to the budget.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/NYPICHPDPICT000008998724-1.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Members of the New York Senate work on legislative bills in the Senate Chamber before Gov. Kathy Hochul presents her executive state budget.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>AP\/Hans Pennin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/NYPICHPDPICT000006348296-1.jpg\"> <\/a><figcaption>Hochul could refuse to offer an \u201cextender\u201d without the housing and bail changes she wants.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span>Julia Nikhinson \u2013 CNP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The public safety concern raised is over bail reform, which is of more immediate concern than the housing issue. Governor Hochul may win the public\u2019s favor over bail reform in a government shutdown situation, but this might not help those who want bail laws revised and governors to stop exploiting the budget process. Despite good or bad governance tactics, the governor seems incapable of dealing with the Legislature, demonstrated by her recent nearly 30% pay increase implemented without asking for anything in return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, people must urge lawmakers to enact laws, the old-fashioned way, instead of relying on governors using the budget process. This may be a better way of breaking the current impasse.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was one reason to look the other way when multiple governors abused the state-budget process over the past two decades to enact major policy changes: It worked. Now Gov. Kathy Hochul, in her first proposed budget as elected leader, has somehow both overreached and underreached \u2014 stuffed too much into her budget and (so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1913190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4463,8434,24152,5778,11845,8436,13154,24151],"class_list":["post-1913189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-budget","tag-gelinas","tag-hochuls","tag-isnt","tag-kathy","tag-nicole","tag-quest","tag-quixotic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}