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Kathy Hochul
stated on May 5, 2025 in a television interview:

The state budget contains the largest middle class tax cut in 70 years.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 1, 2025
Kathy Hochul
stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event:

We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 26, 2024
Kathy Hochul
stated on February 22, 2024 in an interview:

In New York, there are no barriers to law enforcement to work with the federal government on immigration laws, and there are 100 crimes where migrants can be handed over.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 29, 2024
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 in a news conference:

The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
Kathy Hochul
stated on October 25, 2022 in a debate:

The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 5, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on September 28, 2022 in a speech:

New York state is outpacing the rest of the country, because shootings in New York are down 10%, and across the country the drop is only 2%.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 24, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on June 30, 2022 in a campaign advertisement:

Lee Zeldin “voted for abortion bans even when the mother’s health is at risk.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 17, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on April 19, 2022 in a campaign commercial:

Since taking office, Hochul has passed more than 400 new bills

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 30, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on February 27, 2022 in a news conference:

“We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year-olds.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2022
Kathy Hochul
stated on April 8, 2020 in a television interview:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was simply saying if we can share 20 percent of your excess, your non-used ventilators, to help people in other parts of the state on a voluntary basis, that would be great. Of course, there was a reaction to that, which was not positive."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 14, 2020
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 25, 2017 in a speech at City & State’s State of NY Women forum:

"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."

By Dan Clark • June 9, 2017

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