This week, Albany Democrats announced that the final 2026-27 Executive Budget would be $277 billion, nearly $9 billion more than the $268 billion figure claimed by Governor Hochul just two weeks ago when the budget was finally passed. That raises only two possibilities: ignorance or deception. Both are absolutely unacceptable. 

Since Democrats took the majority in Albany in 2019, New York’s state budget has ballooned by more than $100 billion. At the same time, New Yorkers are being priced out of their own state. This budget, the latest passed in 16 years, is more than a failure of fiscal responsibility. It is a failure of leadership and a complete disregard for the taxpayers who are forced to foot the bill. 

Families are struggling, costs keep climbing, and Albany’s answer is always the same: spend more, tax more, and demand more from the people who can least afford it.  

New Yorkers deserve accountability and transparency from their government. Quietly adding $9 billion to an already historically high state budget is the opposite of both.