Upstate, suburbs fuming as cash-hungry NYC gets Hochul bailout and gobbles up state budget talks

Source: New York Post

They have budgetary FOMO. Sidelined pols outside the Big Apple are frustrated that the cash-hungry metropolis is gobbling up attention amid ongoing state budget talks — as their own cities and towns starve for funds. Some state lawmakers have even tried to emulate Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose high-profile demands to help close a $5.