Our nation needs secure borders. Our nation needs comprehensive immigration reform from this body.
Kathy Hochul
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Kathy Hochul is the 57th Governor of New York, having assumed office on August 24, 2021. She is the first female governor of the state. Prior to her governorship, Hochul served as the Lieutenant Governor of New York from January 1, 2015, until she became governor. Throughout her political career, she has focused on issues such as economic development, women's rights, and public safety.
New York has managed an unprecedented immigrant influx because of a broken border.
You’re putting a federal problem on our laps. And know what? It gets old after a while.
Charlie was a powerful voice in government and politics, and we remember him today for not only leading his life as a public servant of this great State but also for his dedicated service to our military in the Korean War.
Robert Brooks should be alive today. The brutal attack on Mr. Brooks was sickening, and I immediately moved to terminate the employment of those involved.
The will of the voters and the supremacy and sanctity of democratic elections precluded her from doing so.
Just leave everybody alone. Leave the parents alone. Leave the kids alone.
My job as governor is to make sure that whomever the very smart voters of this city want as their mayor is someone that I will work with, who will work with me to continue my efforts, to make our subways safer, to make sure that we're…
I can't make that up. They start cutting that kind of money. I can't make that up. People are going to suffer.
I know how I'll spend it as a Democrat and I'll make sure it goes to the right place. Haven't helped the Republican states who might take that money and do something that's not focused on feeding hungry kids, helping kids with disabilities…
They created the chaos. We need to point the finger where it belongs.
Listen, we have benefited tremendously here in the state of New York of having the influence of the majority leader for the Senate, our home senator. Look at the CHIPS and Science Act. We have Mike Rahn with 50,000 jobs coming to upstate…
She's not wrong. But you look at a state like New York, examine the record, what are we delivering for people? Child care, $7 billion that we're investing in our families. The affordability agenda that I have in my budget. I have a path…
People are frustrated. I mean, first of all, they're exhausted. There's enormous fatigue that there's so much incoming all the time. The voters were promised lower prices on Inauguration Day. And let's talk about what's happened since…
But once you draw first blood on us, we're coming back hard. And I will be leading the resistance on policies like these where you're hurting New Yorkers directly.
There is a huge disconnect between the reality we know that New Yorkers are facing and the perception of reality out of the White House.
I'm here to say New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. We sure as hell are not gonna start now.
We offered up an olive branch. [We said] 'We'll work with you on infrastructure. Let's redo Penn Station'.
Guards upset over working conditions began illegally walking off the job Feb. 17.
I just do not have all the facts. But here in New York, unlike the president, we actually respect rule of law. So I'm waiting to see what the judge says about this.
The pushback against these egregious violations of the rights of pro-Palestinian students was weak and muted.





