Retail theft, migrant crisis: NY budget tests Hochul, Democrats

ALBANY, New York — The $233 billion budget proposal Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to land this week is facing headwinds in a state roiled with division over the migrant crisis, an ideological split inside the Democratic Party over crime and political complexities to expand housing and help tenants. Hochul and her fellow Democrats who hold supermajorities in the state Legislature are also mindful the spending plan due by April 1 could have lasting ramifications for the party’s House candidates running in swing seats this year. Republicans have successfully capitalized on controversial criminal justice law changes made in recent elections. But the broad tensions within the Democratic Party between moderate and left-leaning factions have made it significantly harder to reach sweeping…

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