Posted on March 30, 2018 by Abigail Savitch-Lew in City Limits City Limits, By Abigail Savitch-Lew Congestion pricing. Education spending. Preventing the affluent from getting doubly taxed by Trump’s new tax plan. There were a lot of competing priorities to be resolved in this year’s roughly $170 billion New York State budget, which by Friday morning was in the very last stages of negotiation. With a $4.4 billion deficit hanging over Albany, legislators said there wasn’t a lot of leeway for new spending this year.
