{"id":241276,"date":"2026-05-23T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:42:08","slug":"ny-capital-tonight-may-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241276\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Capital Tonight: May 22, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state budget process is finally moving along, closing in quickly on two months past the April 1 deadline. It does an appear the end is in sight after some movement this week.\u00a0We finally saw budget bills start to pass and gain momentum. The most pivotal of those being the public protection bill which passed Thursday. Also, after Thursday night&#8217;s Spectrum News 1 debate with the Democratic candidates for state comptroller, Capital Tonight checked in with Joseph Hernandez, the Republican candidate for the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state budget process is finally moving along, closing in quickly on two months past the April 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22136,19662,19663,9,11,10,49,51,50,200],"class_list":["post-241276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-capital-tonight-show","tag-capital-tonight-staff","tag-ctv-capital-tonight-full-episode","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241276","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=241276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}