Monday Morning Memo and More

Good Morning from the Nation's Capital   Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered his first joint address to Congress, detailing the American Families Plan—a $1.8 trillion collection of spending increases and tax cuts to pay for a major expansion of education,...

Despite one of the strangest budget processes in recent memory, New York’s leaders reached an agreement on the budget including major changes on taxes. They also came to a deal on adult use cannabis and mobile sports betting, two complicated and long outstanding...

Good Morning from the Nation's Capital   Last Thursday, Republicans in the United States Senate unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure counterproposal to the Biden Administration’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan, laying out their opening salvo in...

Good Morning from the Nation's Capital   As New York recovered from the budget process, Washington was full steam ahead on infrastructure and earmarks. A group of moderate Republicans and Democrats, led by Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) are working on a...

Good Morning from the State Capital  Governor Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins reached an overdue agreement on the State Fiscal Year 2022 Budget last Tuesday. The $212 billion spending plan caps off an...

Good Morning from the State Capital  Good Morning from Albany where it is now “March 36th” (or April 5th for the rest of the world) and many are asking “where is the State Fiscal Year 2021-22 budget?” Like much in Planet Albany, there were differing interpretations of...