Senator Rachel May Delivers Floor Speech on Senate One-House Budget Resolution

“It has been quaint hearing our colleagues across the aisle preach fiscal responsibility and affordability while they and their party seed absolute unchecked power to a man who is literally burning through billions of dollars a day with an illegal war, with masked thugs in our streets, with building concentration camps for immigrant children, lining his own pockets and the pockets of his billionaire buddies while he's picking the pockets of my constituents, the farmers and small business owners who have to navigate between his tariffs and trade wars, and now spiking costs of gas. And the institutions that are linchpins of many of our upstate economies, higher education, and hospitals, he is targeting them with precision, trying to ruin their business models. With this budget document, we are asserting that New York is still a civilized state where we feed the hungry, house the homeless, care for children, and invest in infrastructure, agriculture, environmental protection, science, and public health, and where we defend our immigrant neighbors, trans young people like my son, and the rule of law,” said Senator Rachel May.