New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will present this year’s budget proposal Feb. 1 after already clashing with the state Senate over a judicial nominee, raising questions about how smoothly this annual back-and-forth between the executive and legislative branch will go.
Hochul—a moderate Democrat from Buffalo who won her governorship in an unexpectedly narrow victory in November—already has faced opposition from members of her own party who hold a veto-proof supermajority in both the state Senate and Assembly. A key Senate committee, in an unprecedented move Jan. 18, rejected Hochul’s pick to head the state’s highest court, citing the nominee’s conservative ...