About this episode

Emily Gallagher discusses New York's budget process and Reneé Feltz talks about NYC's sanitation overhaul.

Emily Gallagher, a democratic socialist from Brooklyn first elected to the State Assembly in 2020, discusses how Gov. Hochul has used her disproportionate power to break the legislative process for deciding on the states roughly $265 billion annual budget to push regressive legislation that has nothing to do with the budget and how this mess can be fixed if the legislature can find the courage to take on the governor. Reneé Feltz discusses her epic cover story for the May print edition of The Indypendent titled “Trash Revolution: NYC Dumps Throwaway Culture for Sanitation Overhaul. Will It Succeed?”

People in this episode

Guests: Emily Gallagher, Reneé Feltz

Topics covered

• New York State Budget
• Legislative Process
• Sanitation Overhaul
• Trash Revolution
• Democratic Socialism

Keywords

• New York
• budget process
• Emily Gallagher
• Reneé Feltz
• sanitation
• Trash Revolution
• legislation
• democratic socialism

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Organizations: Gov. Hochul, The Indypendent

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