Gov. Kathy Hochul has her priorities twisted, according to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who ripped the Democrat as more worried about helping illegal migrants than driving down costs for everyday New Yorkers.
“I want to make sure that we can bring down the cost of government so that people, taxpayers, don’t have to spend money on things that don’t benefit them — and, in fact, hurt them — like spending $4.5 billion on illegal migrants, which is what Gov. Hochul did,” the Republican candidate for governor told billionaire WABC-AM radio owner John Catsimatidis on his “Cats Roundtable” show Sunday.
“[This] is money that could have been spent on infrastructure, hospitals and, more important, schools and cutting taxes.”
“[NYC] spent about $8 billion [on migrants]. Between the [city and state], it’s over $12 billion on illegal migrants,” said Blakeman, who has the backing of President Trump.
”It’s a tremendous amount of money, and it’s for people who didn’t earn it. They’ve been here for 15 minutes. They’re here illegally.”
Blakeman has previously attacked Hochul over the state’s spending to provide migrants services and has positioned himself as a conservative candidate who staunchly opposes sanctuary policies.
“Bruce Blakeman is Donald Trump’s No.1 cheerleader for his attacks on New York families — after Trump gutted Medicaid and SNAP and jacked up costs with expensive tariffs, Blakeman said Trump was doing an ‘amazing job,’” claimed Hochul campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika.
“That’s exactly how Blakeman would govern: importing Trump’s cost-hiking agenda to New York and running our hospitals into the ground the same way he did on Long Island.”
