No Way Gov. Kathy Hochul Tweeted That About Illegal Aliens
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"Damn right I did. " Say what you want about Kathy Hochul, but she's not hiding the ball on this one. She paid legal bills for 1,400 illegal aliens and instead of quietly moving on, she bragged about it on social media like she'd just funded a children's hospital wing.
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I mean, we shouldn’t be surprised, but here we are, enduring another awful moment from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. Whoever signed off on this knows what state they govern. It wouldn’t fly anywhere else, though it exposes that Democrats will go above and beyond for people who shouldn’t be here and do next to nothing for American citizens.
Hochul boasted that she paid the legal bills for some 1,400 illegal aliens. Her response: “Damn right I did.” (via NY Post):
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"Damn right I did." Say what you want about Kathy Hochul, but she's not hiding the ball on this one. She paid legal bills for 1,400 illegal aliens and instead of quietly moving on, she bragged about it on social media like she'd just funded a children's hospital wing. That's not a gaffe. That's a governor telling you exactly where her priorities sit.
New Yorkers footing that bill might have some questions. Where's the press release about the backlog of veterans waiting on benefits, or the tenants stuck in housing court with no lawyer because the state can't be bothered to fund civil legal aid for citizens the way it does for people who crossed the border illegally? Nobody's tweeting "damn right" about that. The math never seems to work in the other direction, and everyone in Albany knows it.
What makes this one sting isn't even the spending, it's the tone. There's no apology, no framing about compassion or due process, just a flex. It's the confidence of someone who knows her base will cheer and her critics don't matter because the state's politics are locked in anyway. That's the real story here. Hochul isn't worried about backlash because she's not governing for the New Yorkers asking why illegal aliens get a legal defense fund and law-abiding residents get a shrug.
If a red-state governor bragged about funding legal defense for anyone, let alone people in the country illegally, it would be a national scandal within the hour. In New York, it's Tuesday.
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