{"id":139391,"date":"2026-02-19T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:19:10","slug":"am-gonzalez-rojas-welcomes-1-5-billion-in-state-budget-relief-for-nyc-including-60m-health-care-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139391\/","title":{"rendered":"AM Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas welcomes $1.5 billion in state budget relief for NYC, including $60M health care boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/01\/gonzalez-rojas-universal-childcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas<\/a> has welcomed news that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul have reached an agreement that will see New York state allocate an additional $1.5 billion in operating expenses to New York City over two years to address the city\u2019s ongoing fiscal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas, in particular, praised Hochul and Mamdani for reaching an agreement to provide $60 million in health care funding previously covered by the city.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/gonzalez-rojas-state-budget-relief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tAM Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas welcomes $1.5 billion in state budget relief for NYC, including $60M health care boost &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas has welcomed news that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul have reached an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40981,310,19288,426,10774,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,82],"class_list":["post-139391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzalez-rojas","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-gustavo-rivera","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lynn-schulman","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}