Hochul signs law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for natural disaster cleanup

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation Thursday that requires companies responsible for massive amounts of global warming pollution to contribute to efforts to remediate the damage caused by climate change. Under a new state law, companies responsible for the majority of emissions from 2000 to 2018 will be liable for about $3 billion […]
Hochul doles out final vetoes, approvals for 2024 bills

Humbug! New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has come under fire for a number of eyebrow-raising vetoes, including one against a bill that would increase transparency in government emergency contracts as 2024 ends. There is. Good government groups, some homeless shelter advocates and trial lawyers say the governor is getting a big lump of coal this […]
NY Rep. Lawler hints he may run for gov while roasting Hochul, Schumer and more by the fire

He was grilling politicians and promoting himself as a candidate for New York's next governor. Republican New York state Rep. Mike Lawler slammed the state's Democratic Party this week on his grievance show “Festival,” hinting at a possible run for governor in 2026. “Kathy Hochul is the most unpopular governor in the country. Without a […]
Border czar Homan slams Hochul over NYC subway safety boast

President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan, the New York governor who boasted on the X show about improving subway safety hours after an illegal immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping passenger on the F train Blamed Kathy Hochul. “Governor Hochul, I'm sorry. There's nothing you can say to make this right in New York,” Hochul […]
‘Shame On You!’: Tom Homan Lights Into Kathy Hochul After Migrant Allegedly Burned Woman To Death On Subway

Tom Hochul, the border czar-designate, criticized New York state Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday after the death of a woman who was allegedly set on fire by an immigrant on a New York City subway on Sunday. Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arrested Sunday by New York City police in connection with the […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul Sets Herself Up For Political Disaster Hours After New York Subway Murder

Hours after the horrific subway murder in which the victim was burned to death, Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul says everything is great, great, okay, “crime is going down” and New Yorkers are just jumping up and down joking. He reassured everyone that he was there. Get on the subway car. On Sunday morning, […]
Truth Social crypto deal to acquire Bakkt could put Trump on collision course with Kathy Hochul: sources

Donald Trump's plan to buy troubled cryptocurrency company Bakkt could face a chaotic approval process in New York state, potentially putting it in conflict with Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration. The Post reported that. Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is a subsidiary of Bakkt, formerly led by Kelly Loeffler, a former […]
New York Gov. Hochul orders firing of prison staffers involved in inmate’s deadly beating

Earlier this month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (Democratic) ordered the firing of more than a dozen prison employees in connection with the fatal assault of an inmate. In a statement Saturday, Hochul asked the state Department of Corrections Commissioner to begin the process of terminating the 14 employees involved in the Dec. 9 incident […]
Hochul Slammed over Post Claiming She Made NYC ‘Subways Safer’

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) came under fire for a tone-deaf post claiming to have made New York City's subways “safer” hours after a woman was killed in a subway fire. In Hochul's post, highlighted She spoke out in March about how she had “taken action” to make the subways safer, sending the New […]
Kathy Hochul ripped for tweet about improved subway safety after NYC straphanger lit on fire

New York Gov. Cathy Hochul was criticized for a “tone-deaf” tweet bragging about improving subway safety just hours after a straphanger was killed while sleeping on a Brooklyn train set on fire on Sunday. Democratic leaders were forced to close the aisle after their office made a social media post celebrating a decline in subway […]