With New York’s annual budget due Friday morning, Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers’ 11th-hour negotiations are centered on potential changes to bail reform, opening Big Apple casinos and public funding to build a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills.
State Sen. Diane Savino told The Post Wednesday the debate over tightening bail laws is one of the items slowing down budget talks, putting Hochul’s first budget in peril of being late.
“It’s bail, the Buffalo Bills Stadium, casinos,” Savino (D- Brooklyn) said Wednesday from Albany. “A whole bunch of us are not leaving here without bail reform.”
Assemblywoman Latrice Walker (D-Brooklyn), a liberal lawmaker who has
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