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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 2d

Do you like Zohran's goals of universal childcare + free buses? That means you want New York State to tax the rich.

It also means you disagree with Governor Kathy Hochul, who's telling state agencies to reduce services.

Hochul is facing a primary next year; let us make #TaxTheRich the main issue.

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

🤓WONKY STATEMENT ALERT🤓

Gov. Hochul wants to cut New York State Agency budgets (again). But with [gestures wildly] everything going on right now, New Yorkers need to be able to depend on public programs AND the people who keep them running.

👇Our full statement👇 (& more wonkiness in this thread)

On Thursday, New York State Budget Director Blake Washington sent a letter to agency commissioners, requesting that their budget proposals for the next fiscal year not exceed the amount of the current fiscal year; in other words, their budget requests for the 2027 Fiscal Year should remain “flat.” This follows a New York Focus report that already-strained government staff must scramble to enforce new federal SNAP requirements in a matter of weeks. In response, the Invest in Our New York Campaign released the following statement:

“While Gov. Hochul will frame this request as keeping budgets flat, we know the truth: This is a cut to public programs and services. As costs skyrocket and many agencies are already short-staffed, the governor wants public servants to do more with so much less.

“Gov. Hochul needs to stop playing the blame game with D.C. Republicans and start acting in the best interest of the people she represents. Convene a special session, raise the public funds our state desperately needs by taxing the super-rich, and invest in the offices, programs, and services that support New Yorkers.”

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

NY is home to about 125 billionaires who are about to become astronomically richer, all thanks to the federal budget scam. But if we make them pay their fair share of taxes right here in NY, we can combat these federal funding gaps.
It's time to stop playing the blame game & finally #taxtheirch
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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

Gov. Hochul continues to blame Republicans for the devastation New Yorkers are facing –– she's not wrong. But as the State's top elected leader, she has the power to develop real solutions....

...and cutting programs and services ain't it. bsky.app/profile/inve...

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · Sep 10

Welp, @governor.ny.gov is on board with Trump & Congressional Republicans' efforts to make NY sicker. @axios.com reported this morning that Hochul is scrapping expanded healthcare b/c of the Federal Budget Scam. www.axios.com/2025/09/10/n...

Our response (spoiler, she should #TaxTheRich instead)👇

Earlier this morning, Axios reported that Gov. Hochul plans to axe New Yorkers’ healthcare as a result of July’s Federal Budget Scam. Below is a response from Erica Vladimer, Communications Coordinator for the Invest In Our New York Campaign:

“New York’s Congressional Republican delegation happily voted to make New Yorkers sicker by cutting billions from our healthcare, forcing state leaders to step in and deal with the aftermath. Unfortunately, Governor Hochul’s claim to stand up for New York’s families falls short as she chooses to axe their healthcare. Instead, Governor Hochul can raise the necessary public dollars to protect healthcare access by raising taxes on New York’s millionaires and billionaires. Anything less is just going along with Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans.”

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't the first time Gov. Hochul has told agencies to keep their budgets flat. But now, she's blaming the Federal Budget Scam.

Except, these federal cuts make robust state services even MORE necessary! A recent @nysfocus.bsky.social story provides a key example: nysfocus.com/2025/10/09/t...

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

nysfocus.com

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

🚨A flat budget = budget cuts!🚨

Costs go up year over year. Think: union-negotiated salaries, utility costs (just like yours at home!), etc. Even if the scale of operations stayed the same year to year, costs would increase.

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

But it's less of an ask than it is a tell – the letter TELLS agencies what their budget should look like. In this case, agency budgets for next year cannot exceed their budget for this year. In other words: keep your budget flat. Full letter: www.budget.ny.gov/guide/brm/fy...

Responding to federal funding cuts, Governor Hochul has already charged State agencies to
exercise fiscal discipline by preparing comprehensive strategies to limit potential long-term
damage to vital programs. Moving forward, agency budget requests for State Fiscal Year (SFY)
2027 should not exceed the total SFY 2026 Enacted Budget agency funding levels, excluding
one-time investments. As always, the effectiveness of all agency functions, programs, and
services should be reviewed and all expenditures should be examined. Unnecessary duplication
or overlaps should be eliminated.

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

Every October, Gov. Hochul's Budget Director sends a letter to state agencies asking them to submit their budget needs for the coming year (in this case, Fiscal Year 27, which starts on April 1, 2026). This will be included in the Gov's executive budget proposal released in mid-January.

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 2d

🤓WONKY STATEMENT ALERT🤓

Gov. Hochul wants to cut New York State Agency budgets (again). But with [gestures wildly] everything going on right now, New Yorkers need to be able to depend on public programs AND the people who keep them running.

👇Our full statement👇 (& more wonkiness in this thread)

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 3d

“Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 3d

[spoiler alert: Gov. Hochul has that power]

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 3d

We have a great package of legislation that would help address the funding cuts. AND, we've called on lawmakers to convene a special session to make it happen NOW (not in April when people will already be sicker & hungrier). You can sign our petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

PETITION: Hold a Special Session to Protect New Yorkers from the Federal Budget Scam

The Federal Budget Scam makes devastating cuts to our healthcare, balloons ICE spending, and gives billionaires and millionaires big tax breaks - it’s a scam: it makes life harder for everyday New Yo...

actionnetwork.org

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 3d

This is really a damn shame. If only there was New York elected who had the power to raise new state public $$$ by taxing the rich so we could invest those clean energy projects and keep New Yorkers employed.

Do you know anyone with that kind of power, Governor Hochul?

Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · 3d

Once again, New York Republicans are turning their backs on their neighbors to please Donald Trump.

1,000 jobs and $650 million are on the line.

They’d rather kiss the ring than protect their own state.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 10d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 11d

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help people stay healthy.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than keep people fed.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than tax the rich.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11d

It's official: 🏛️➡️ 🚫

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 13d

New Mexico lawmakers are opening a special session Wednesday to combat the Federal Budget Scam by investing in public programs. So did Colorado and California. Oregon is also considering it.

New York...🦗crickets🦗

Twiddling our thumbs won’t help! Special session now!

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump's big bill is prompting urgent action in some Democratic states, but not in Republican ones

New Mexico lawmakers are convening in a special session this week to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care.

apnews.com

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 19d

“Like their French peers, many of NY’s billionaires have predicted the fall of civilization if their taxes are raised, but it’s…hard to see how raising from 10.9% on the portion of their income in excess of $25M to 12.9% would bring the walls of the temple tumbling down” prospect.org/economy/2025...

Clamoring to Tax the Rich

In Berkeley, New York, Paris, and Vatican City, it’s become central to political battles—and religious concerns.

prospect.org

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 25d

@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social knows what's up.

The Federal Budget Scam serves the rich, and the rich alone.

New Yorkers are more than ready to #TaxTheRich.

It's time for them to pay their fair share.

A screeenshot of a twitter post from Politico reporter Jeff Coltin. There's a photo of Zohran Mamdani and NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie standing at a podium outside with news station microphones on the podium and a Zohran for New York City sign on the podium too. The tweet says:

Would you help Mamdani raise taxes on millionaires, pass free child care and free buses, Heastie is asked?
“All of the above,” Heastie said.
“Millionaire taxes poll extremely well,” he adds. “With the Big Disgusting Bill, the rich are getting richer with that bill.”

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 25d

The Federal Budget Scam is....scamming working-class New Yorkers.

Fair Share America @fairshareamerica.bsky.social · 25d

New analysis shows that middle-income families will pay nearly three times more in higher costs from Trump tariffs than they get in tax cuts from Trump's Big, Ugly Bill - and lower-income families will be hit even harder.

#TaxJustice

Cost hike from tariffs is greater than OBBBA tax cuts for most Americans

In case you missed it -- new analysis from Yale Budget Lab shows that middle-income families will pay nearly three times more in higher costs from Trump tariffs than they get in tax cuts from the OBBB...

open.substack.com

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 27d

"Do you think the government should increase taxes on the wealthiest to strengthen the country's social and safety net programs?"

Yes: 73%
No: 26%

Beacon/Shaw / Sep 9, 2025

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 27d

Read the Comptroller's report here: www.osc.ny.gov/files/report...

Read the Fiscal Policy Institute's analysis on New York's rising inequality here: fiscalpolicy.org/new-data-sho...

Read @winnyc.bsky.social's report about the potential (devastating) cuts to housing here: winnyc.org/wp-content/u...

www.osc.ny.gov

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 27d

We're shocked –– shocked we tell you! –– that @nyscomptroller.bsky.social found that the Federal Budget Scam hurts working-class New Yorkers while benefiting the ridiculously rich.

Anyone else think it's time for a special session to #TaxTheRich?

Earlier today, State Comptroller DiNapoli released a report analyzing the impact that the Federal Budget Scam’s tax cut extensions will have on New Yorkers. This report comes on the heels of an analysis by the Fiscal Policy Institute that confirms New York’s growing economic inequality. Below is a statement from Erica Vladimer, communications coordinator for the Invest in Our New York Campaign, in response to the Comptroller’s report:

“The analysis from Comptroller DiNapoli confirms what we already knew: The federal budget scam will move billions of dollars into the pockets of the richest New Yorkers, including the 130 billionaires who call New York home, while hurting working-class people in our state.

"Congressional Republicans passed a budget that cut our safety net programs and increased burdens on working-class people, all to pay for tax breaks for the rich. It is not enough for state lawmakers to criticize the federal government; they must also take action to protect New Yorkers.

“Governor Hochul, Leader Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Heastie must convene a special session, make the super wealthy and highly profitable corporations pay their fair share, and invest those new public dollars in keeping our healthcare whole and making New York affordable for everyone.

“As Comptroller DiNapoli’s report makes clear, the federal budget scam ‘further skews tax benefits to individuals and businesses at higher income’ and will ‘put a heavier burden on working-class New Yorkers trying to make ends meet.’ New York’s millionaires and billionaires can afford to pay what they owe in taxes.”

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Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is a disaster for me personally. How the fuck are any of us supposed to survive this?

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · Sep 10

Welp, @governor.ny.gov is on board with Trump & Congressional Republicans' efforts to make NY sicker. @axios.com reported this morning that Hochul is scrapping expanded healthcare b/c of the Federal Budget Scam. www.axios.com/2025/09/10/n...

Our response (spoiler, she should #TaxTheRich instead)👇

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · Sep 10

So sorry to hear that this directly impacts you, Mandy.

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Jen DeWeerth ❌👑 @jendeweerth.bsky.social · Sep 10

Why is @governor.ny.gov caving to Trump and taking away our healthcare? If she really wants to protect New Yorkers, she'd #taxtherich so every New Yorker can see a doctor without going broke. It's really that simple...and popular!

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · Sep 10

Welp, @governor.ny.gov is on board with Trump & Congressional Republicans' efforts to make NY sicker. @axios.com reported this morning that Hochul is scrapping expanded healthcare b/c of the Federal Budget Scam. www.axios.com/2025/09/10/n...

Our response (spoiler, she should #TaxTheRich instead)👇

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · Sep 10

@governor.ny.gov could join us in calling for a #SpecialSessionNow to protect NYers from the MAGA budget. Instead, she's cutting off access to healthcare for 450,000 NYers. NYS has the resources to meet NYers' needs -- we just need leaders who are willing to fight for us!

Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · Sep 10

Welp, @governor.ny.gov is on board with Trump & Congressional Republicans' efforts to make NY sicker. @axios.com reported this morning that Hochul is scrapping expanded healthcare b/c of the Federal Budget Scam. www.axios.com/2025/09/10/n...

Our response (spoiler, she should #TaxTheRich instead)👇

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