New York
Finally, the State Has a Budget Deal
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Good morning. It’s Friday. In the present day we’ll have a look at the long-awaited proposed state finances and listen to from the Manhattan district legal professional, who mentioned that his investigation into Donald Trump isn’t lifeless in spite of everything.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has reached a take care of lawmakers on a $220 billion state finances after bruising battles that pushed negotiations almost per week previous the April 1 deadline.
Democrats within the Legislature tried and failed to dam adjustments to the state’s bail legal guidelines, however gained billions in spending to make little one care extra reasonably priced.
My colleagues Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Grace Ashford laid out the broader tensions between legislators and the governor over how to reply to a number of crises, just like the socioeconomic results of the pandemic and more and more dire projections of the affect of local weather change.
Hochul, a Democrat, seeks to enchantment to centrist voters earlier than a gubernatorial marketing campaign the place public-safety points are anticipated to be highlighted. Democrats to her left search to assist struggling staff, handle inequalities and cut back fossil-fuel burning.
Precise figures gained’t begin rising till all of the laws is launched. For now, listed here are some highlights:
A stadium for the Payments
Prevailing over opponents who referred to as the plan company welfare, Hochul gained lawmakers’ approval for the most important public subsidy for a stadium in N.F.L. historical past. The take care of the Buffalo Payments, which she referred to as essential to maintain them in western New York, places in $600 million in state funds and $250 million from Erie County towards a brand new $1.4 billion stadium.
Financial measures
The finances consists of lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} in tax cuts to ease the burden on New Yorkers grappling with skyrocketing gasoline costs, together with suspending some state gasoline taxes from June till the top of the 12 months.
The bundle goals to make lots of of thousand extra kids eligible for sponsored little one care by increasing subsidies to households incomes as much as 3 times the federal poverty degree. It will present $343 million to assist little one care suppliers strained by the pandemic and enhance their reimbursement charges. It additionally would supply an extra $125 million for common pre-Okay.
Different further spending would enhance wages for dwelling care staff and develop well being care protection for undocumented immigrants.
Public security
The finances proposes adjustments to a 2019 bail legislation that had made solely essentially the most severe crimes eligible for money bail. Leaders in Albany say these adjustments aren’t responsible for a rise in crime in New York Metropolis however that the compromise deal will assist, particularly to scale back gun violence. New measures would change how some gun crimes are dealt with, permit arrests for sure repeated offenses and ease burdens on prosecutors to show over materials shortly to the protection.
There’s additionally new funding for mental-health providers and provisions to develop use of Kendra’s legislation, which mandates therapy for mentally sick individuals discovered to pose hazard to themselves or others.
Local weather
The gasoline tax cuts riled some Democrats who need bigger will increase in spending to battle and put together for local weather change, particularly as a result of the finances deal neglected an formidable proposal Ms. Hochul supported to ban gasoline and oil hookups in new buildings beginning in 2027. That transfer would have made New York the primary state to cease including oil- and gas-burning stoves and heaters and require new buildings to make use of solely electrical energy.
But it surely did embody a $4.2 billion environmental bond act to assist finance initiatives meant to guard in opposition to local weather change, and a dedication to make faculty bus fleets one hundred pc electrical by 2035.
Climate
It’s a principally sunny day within the low 60s, with scattered showers late at night time and temps dropping to the mid-40s.
alternate-side parking
In impact till Thursday (Holy Thursday).
A brand new Yankees season
The Yankees’ first recreation begins right now at 1:05 p.m. at dwelling. They’re taking part in the Pink Sox.
Rain forecasts led to the postponement of the opening recreation, which had been scheduled for Thursday — including a day to an low season that had already been prolonged per week when Main League Baseball and the gamers’ union labored to barter a brand new collective bargaining settlement.
The rain delay additionally gave the Yankees an additional day to barter a contract extension with the outfielder Aaron Decide. Decide, who is usually a free agent after this season, had mentioned he wouldn’t negotiate with the staff as soon as video games start. No deal had been reached as of Thursday night time.
The newest New York information
Manhattan D.A. denies he has stop investigating Trump
Greater than a month in the past, the Manhattan district legal professional, Alvin Bragg, rejected a plan to current a grand jury with costs in opposition to Donald J. Trump. The 2 prime prosecutors main the three-year investigation stop in protest, one warning in a resignation letter that not prosecuting the previous president could be “a grave failure of justice.”
Now, Mr. Bragg has spoken on the problem for the primary time, declaring that he’s nonetheless pursuing the investigation and that prosecutors have not too long ago questioned new witnesses and examined new paperwork.
Citing grand-jury secrecy guidelines, he declined to offer extra particulars or say whether or not he had developed a brand new concept that made him extra assured of victory within the case, which facilities on whether or not Mr. Trump dedicated against the law in inflating the worth of his accommodations, golf programs and different properties.
As my colleagues Jonah E. Bromwich, William Okay. Rashbaum and Ben Protess report, Bragg sought to deal with criticism that erupted when the resignation letter from Mark F. Pomerantz was printed in The New York Instances.
The letter mentioned the investigation had been “suspended indefinitely” regardless that Trump was “responsible of quite a few felony violations,” and that Pomerantz and the opposite prosecutor, Carey R. Dunne, had tried however didn’t persuade Bragg that the case could possibly be gained and ought to be introduced no matter final result.
In an almost hourlong interview at his workplace on Thursday, Mr. Bragg disputed Pomerantz’s account. However he didn’t handle specifics concerning the progress of the investigation, saying solely that he had not “shelved” any method to the case, now led by one other senior prosecutor, Susan Hoffinger.
He promised to announce any ultimate choice he finally makes on whether or not or to not indict Trump or others.
“I’m the district legal professional,” Mr. Bragg mentioned. “I personal this choice.”
What we’re studying
METROPOLITAN diary
Birdsong
Pricey Diary:
On Presidents’ Day, about three dozen individuals of assorted ages gathered on the Brooklyn Botanic Backyard’s entrance for a household fowl stroll. You couldn’t have requested for higher winter climate: sunny, not too chilly, mild breezes.
Our information, a girl carrying a bucket hat adorned with colourful fowl prints, made some preliminary remarks, and we have been on our manner.
“Yellow-bellied sapsucker,” she referred to as out 10 minutes into the stroll.
The group stopped in its tracks. Binoculars have been raised, fingers pointed, sighting ideas shared.
The opposite birds we encountered included a downy woodpecker, a Cooper’s hawk (a blue jay’s warning cries alerted us to its presence) and a white-throated sparrow camouflaged in a bush’s dense branches.
Towards the top of the stroll, a fowl someplace forward burst into tune.
“Cardinal,” the information introduced, and the search started.
Within the flurry of exercise, I puzzled whether or not anyone else was being attentive to the good whistled tune.
“Isn’t the singing great?” I requested, loud sufficient for everybody to listen to.
At the very least one different member of the group, a person, heard me.
“Seems like a automotive alarm to me,” he mentioned.
— Roth Wilkofsky
Illustrated by Agnes Lee. Ship submissions right here and learn extra Metropolitan Diary right here.
Glad we might get collectively right here. James Barron shall be again Monday. — A.B.
P.S. Right here’s right now’s Mini Crossword and Spelling Bee. You will discover all our puzzles right here.
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New York
Trump Tries to Move Hush-Money Case to Federal Court Before Sentencing
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Former President Donald J. Trump sought to move his Manhattan criminal case into federal court on Thursday, filing the unusual request three months after he was convicted in state court.
The long-shot bid marks Mr. Trump’s latest effort to stave off his sentencing in state court in his hush-money trial, in which he was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
He is scheduled to receive his punishment on Sept. 18, just seven weeks before Election Day, when he will square off against Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
“The ongoing proceedings will continue to cause direct and irreparable harm to President Trump — the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election — and voters located far beyond Manhattan,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, wrote in the filing.
Their filing came even as the Trump legal team is awaiting the result of a separate effort to postpone the sentencing; it opened a second front that could complicate the first.
On Aug. 15, Mr. Trump asked the state court judge who presided over the trial, Juan M. Merchan, to delay the sentencing until after Election Day. Mr. Trump’s lawyers argued that they needed more time to challenge his conviction on the basis of a recent Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity for official acts.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which won the conviction of Mr. Trump on May 30, has argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling has “no bearing” on their case, which centers on Mr. Trump’s cover- up of a sex scandal involving a porn star. But the Manhattan prosecutors deferred to the judge on whether to delay the sentencing, leaving the door open for Justice Merchan to punt until after the election.
Justice Merchan was expected to rule on the delay request next week, and it is unclear whether Mr. Trump’s federal petition would disrupt that. In the federal filing, the former president’s lawyers asked a judge to find that Justice Merchan was barred by law from sentencing Mr. Trump while their attempt to move the case was underway.
It seemed possible that effort might backfire. If the federal judge does not grant the lawyers’ request, they will have further alienated Justice Merchan as he prepares to sentence their client. Mr. Trump faces up to four years in prison, though he could receive a shorter sentence, or merely probation.
There are signs the federal judge might be skeptical. Mr. Trump already tried — and failed — to move the case to federal court. Last year, soon after the former president was indicted, he asked the same federal judge to remove the case from Justice Merchan, arguing that it concerned official acts as president.
The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, rejected that argument.
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely personal item of the president — a cover-up of an embarrassing event,” Judge Hellerstein wrote in an opinion last year. “Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the president’s official duties.”
It is unclear how soon Judge Hellerstein might take up Thursday’s request, or whether he will hold a hearing to entertain it. In their filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cast aspersions on the New York State court system, saying its procedures had “proven inadequate” to protect federal interests and, if allowed to continue, would “result in further irreparable harm to President Trump.”
The unorthodox filing suggested that Mr. Trump’s lawyers are likely to make any and every attempt they can to delay the sentencing, even if Judge Hellerstein balks.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
The filing on Thursday captured two of Mr. Trump’s favorite legal strategies: delay, and attacks on Justice Merchan.
The former president has on three occasions sought to oust Justice Merchan from the case, claiming he is biased, and lobbing personal attacks at the judge’s daughter, who is a Democratic political consultant. The judge has rejected each request and assailed the claims as “rife with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims.”
New York
Video: Heavy Downpour Floods New York City Streets
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Heavy Downpour Floods New York City Streets
Drivers navigated flooded roads, including major highways, as a storm hit the New York City region.
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Senator Menendez’s Resignation Letter
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ROBERT MENENDEZ
NEW JERSEY
COMMITTEES:
BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN
AFFAIRS
FINANCE
FOREIGN RELATIONS
The Honorable Phil Murphy
Governor of New Jersey
Office of the Governor
Trenton, N.J. 08625
Dear Governor Murphy,
United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3005
July 23, 2024
528 SENATE HART OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
210 HUDSON STREET
HARBORSIDE 3, SUITE #1000
JERSEY CITY, NJ 07311
(973) 645-3030
208 WHITE HORSE PIKE
SUITE 18-19
BARRINGTON, NJ 08007
(856) 757-5353
This is to advise you that I will be resigning from my office as the United States Senator from
New Jersey, effective on the close of business on August 20, 2024.
This will give time for my staff to transition to other possibilities, transfer constituent files that
are pending, allow for an orderly process to choose an interim replacement, and for me to close
out my Senate affairs.
While I fully intend to appeal the jury’s verdict, all the way and including to the Supreme Court,
I do not want the Senate to be involved in a lengthy process that will detract from its important
work. Furthermore, I cannot preserve my rights upon a successful appeal, because factual matters
before the ethics committee are not privileged. This is evidenced by the Committee’s Staff
Director and Chief Counsel being called to testify at my trial.
I am proud of the many accomplishments I’ve had on behalf of New Jersey, such as leading the
federal effort for Superstorm Sandy recovery, preserving and funding Gateway and leading the
federal efforts to help save our hospitals, State and municipalities, as well as New Jersey families
through a once in a century COVID pandemic. These successes led you, Governor, to call me the
“Indispensable Senator.”
I thank the citizens of New Jersey for the extraordinary privilege of representing them in the
United States Senate.
Sincerely,
Pabet Menang.
Robert Menendez
United States Senator
New Jersey
cc: The Honorable Kamala Harris, President of the Senate
The Honorable Ann Berry, Secretary of the Senate
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