{"id":198315,"date":"2026-04-15T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:42:22","slug":"utica-residents-rally-for-new-york-state-budget-passage-at-office-building-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198315\/","title":{"rendered":"Utica Residents Rally for New York State Budget Passage at Office Building | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Utica Residents Rally for New York State Budget Passage at Office Building\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69dfc1b32875a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; A group of local residents gathered to call for changes as the State budget remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen Action of New York organized the demonstration outside the State Office Building on Genesee Street in downtown Utica.<\/p>\n<p>The group focused on issues tied to the budget process, including proposed changes to the climate bill, car insurance reform and tax adjustments for higher-income individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of million and billionaires here in New York City, and what we really want, our taxpayers&#8230;the rich to pay their fair share by ensuring that they pass a universal child care system, housing protections healthcare and all of these things,\u201d Enoshja Ruffin, spokesperson for Citizen Action of New York, said.<\/p>\n<p>A third extender for the budget process was passed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Hochul\u2019s proposed spending plan totals more than $260 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A group of local residents gathered to call for changes as the State budget remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; A group of local residents gathered to call for changes as the State budget remains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1984,9,11,10,49,43742,51,50,54465,4281,79023],"class_list":{"0":"post-198315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-hochul","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-budget","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-office-building","17":"tag-state-budget","18":"tag-utifca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315","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=198315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}