{"id":667,"date":"2026-05-28T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:40:48","slug":"new-yorks-long-delayed-269b-budget-finally-passes-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s long-delayed $269B budget finally passes legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New York lawmakers finally greenlit a massive $269 billion state budget late Wednesday \u2013 two months after its due date.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=665\">Hakeem Jeffries mocked for posting apparent Facetuned image of himself in Knicks hat: \u2018Just bizarre\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spending plan includes a pied-\u00e0-terre tax on luxury second homes in New York City, rolls back cost state climate goals, adds 50-foot buffer zone around houses of worship for protests and extends mayoral control of Big Apple schools for two years.<\/p>\n<p>The final budget also includes a \u201cno tax on tips\u201d plan.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul had yet to sign three of 10 budget bills as of Thursday, but state lawmakers are done with their work on the spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=663\">How CIA officer convinced US government to give him $40M in gold bars \u2014 as new allegations about his past revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>State Assembly members finished voting around 8 p.m., with their state Senate counterparts wrapping up shortly after 11 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The legislature is done with the session next week, but the drawn-out budget fight has left lawmakers just six legislative days to vote on non-budget items before they hit the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=661\">Dramatic moment masked ICE officers drag suspected illegal migrant from his car at gunpoint in San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature is done with the session next week, but the drawn-out budget fight has left lawmakers just six legislative days to vote on non-budget items&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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