Unlike President Donald Trump, Gov. Hochul's motto is “You're hired!”
Hochul recruits federal workers fired by the government office to meet employment in around 7,000 states. She adds hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer expenses each year to her already bloated salary, which has increased billions of dollars on her watch.
“The federal government might say, 'You've been fired,' but here in New York, they say, 'You've been hired.' video announcement Recruiting drive.
She doubled on Monday, Announcement of digital billboard release At the Union Station in D.C. and at Manhattan's Moynihan station, featuring the Statue of Liberty, telling commuters “New York wants you!”
The campaign where taxpayers are buried is because the state's workforce has already spiked 6% under Hochul.
223,760 “full-time equivalent” employees excluded public salaries as of October. This has risen from 211,042 two years ago. According to data compiled by the state secretary's office.
Although last year's total salary was unavailable, it was a pace that was well beyond $19.3 billion in 2023 and well beyond Hochul's $18.2 billion in 2022 as governor.
Among the jobs to get is the Cannabis Administration's $173,664 annual Chiefs of Staff. A $156,224 spot for the Chief Diversity Officer of the General Services Bureau. and a pair of office gender violence prevention experts for domestic violence protection.
Since Trump returned to the White House in January, around 100,000 federal workers have accepted fired or accepted acquisitions. This is part of a much larger set of budget-slavery moves. Top cut It comes from institutions such as the United States Organization for International Development (USAID) and the Department of Education.
Hochul, who has already fought Trump about his desire to eliminate NYC's busy pricing pricing system, has targeted Doge Boss Elon Musk and his “ignorant executive of career killers.”
“Leave it to the failed New York bureaucracy to actively accumulate salaries with abused bureaucrats in New York. Public sector growth is not the definition of President Trump's job creation,” said White House spokesman Harrison Fields.
Ken Girardine, director of research at the nonprofit think tank Imperial Public Policy Center, called Job Blitz Albany Politics, says the governor is succumbing to a powerful civil servants union that simply wants to meet jobs that “will not destroy the fee flow.”
“The government, Hochur, wasted a great opportunity,” he said. “The state's workforce was shrinking considerably amid Covid due to its slow retirement and employment. It was a great opportunity to restructure the state's workforce.”
“Again, I believe that increasing the size and costs of government is a fundamental principle for Democrats, but it will be difficult to try and persuade people to move to the most affordable nation in the country,” said William Berkeley (R-Praski), a minority leader in the state legislature.
Hochul spokesman Sam Spokony has defended the job push over the past few years, saying “we've been tirelessly trying to restore the state's workforce to pre-pandemic levels,” and saying “this latest effort is no exception.”
“[It] He will attract individuals with transferable skills and experience who suddenly find themselves looking for a job,” he added.
Frank Morano, a Republican running for a seat on the NYC Council, representing Staten Island's South Shore, said Hochul's campaign is a good reason why New York needs its own version of Doge.
“Adding fired federal workers who don't have the civil servant requirements to pay in already bloated states is not only financially reckless, but frankly, that's the exact reason why we need agents like Doge in our state and cities,” he said.
“New Yorkers are tired of virtue signed politicians like Governor Hochul, who waste taxes on useless programs and political stances.”
