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Natasha Cloud stirred controversy with 'Trumpies' posts and warning to ICE about coming to New Yrok, adding to her history of political statements.
Trump cannot take over New York City, but “there are ways in which he can make life difficult,” Columbia University legal expert Richard Briffault told Newsday in a story getting to the truth behind Trump’s words.
New York’s state budget will take a $3 billion hit next year from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, a top state official said Thursday.
Plans for two gas pipelines are moving ahead after the Interior Department allowed construction of a major offshore wind project to proceed.
Health care cuts are a far steeper hill to climb. The state’s Essential Plan, which covers roughly 1.6 million low-income New Yorkers who are ineligible for Medicaid, relies on billions of dollars in federal funding that will start drying up in January under the megabill.
"They want to serve their billionaire buddies, and they don't want to serve the least among us," said New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
The departments of Education, Agriculture, Labor, Justice and Health and Human Services made separate announcements Thursday, touting savings of around $40 billion.