Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers remarks to churchgoers at the Higher Allen AME Cathedral on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Gov. Kathy Hochul was in Queens on Sunday morning the place she promoted her financial agenda at a church service and took a stand towards Medicaid cuts at a youngsters’s hospital.
Hochul started her day at Higher Allen AME Cathedral in St. Albans the place she paid tribute to Dr. Hazel Dukes, the late civil rights chief in New York who died on Saturday on the age of 92. The governor recalled being at Dukes’ bedside earlier within the week and mentioned her life and legacy impressed her to do extra to struggle for ladies’s rights, civil rights and financial justice for all New Yorkers.
“Here’s what I challenge all of us with, though: When we think about women of history, someday, we will be history. People in the future will look to us and say, “Did we pick up that torch for justice and women’s rights and social justice and civil rights?” she instructed the congregation. “Did we pick up the torch and make it glow brighter and march forward? Or did we ignore our moral responsibility to lift up others during our limited time on Earth? I know all of you are with me as we march together.”
Governor Kathy Hochul arrives on the Higher Allen AME Catherdal on Sunday, March 2, 2025.Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Hochul laid out key factors in her plan for the state price range, which shall be hammered out within the weeks to come back with the state Legislature. Zeroing in on the price of dwelling, Hochul is looking for an expanded baby tax credit score in addition to decrease taxes for the center class, offering free group school for expert labor between 25 and 55 years of age, and increasing development of reasonably priced housing.
The governor additionally vowed to struggle federal efforts to slash Social Safety advantages and Medicare and Medicaid funding — the latter factors of which she underscored throughout her go to in a while March 2 to St. Mary’s Kids’s Hospital in Bayside.
Greater than 7 million New Yorkers depend on Medicaid — this system overlaying well being care to low-income People – together with over 600,000 individuals with disabilities and about 200,000 pregnant ladies, in keeping with Hochul. Final week, the Republican-led Home of Representatives handed a price range plan that included $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid to assist pay for tax reductions for rich People and a rise in border safety.
Gov. Kathy Hochul with a baby at St. Mary’s Kids’s Hospital in Bayside, Queens on March 2, 2025.Workplace of Governor Kathy Hochul
Hochul challenged each Republican member of Congress to come back to St. Mary’s and different hospitals earlier than they try to implement such funding cuts for Medicaid and Social Safety.
“And if they dare touch this, there has to be a revolt from all Americans, but certainly here in the State of New York. We’ll take that fight on,” the governor mentioned. “And I think every Republican member of Congress who claims to represent New York State should come to St. Mary’s. Look in the eyes of these kids, listen to their voices, talk to the parents and then still see if you can go back to Washington and cut this program. I bet you cannot. Because otherwise you’d be the most heartless, callous people who ever walked this Earth.”
