The new $237 billion New York state budget is the largest in state history, and is billions of dollars more than Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal from January.

The budget comes with no tax increases for New Yorkers.  

Ken Girardin, director of research for the Empire Center, joins JoDee Kenney to discuss the state budget numbers.

Girardin says most of the budget is going to two places, Medicaid and aid for local school districts.  

"We don't know how budgets will balance,” Girardin said. “Because the state hasn't issued a multi-year financial plan. We'll hopefully get one sometime in early June. That will show us how the state intends to pay for this stuff on an ongoing basis. Last year, that we were confronting a bunch of gaps in the $5 to $10 billion range in future years, simply because the state was spending money faster than it was coming in. The state made some pretty overly optimistic assumptions a couple of years ago about where tax receipts were going to be.”

You can watch the full interview with Girardin in the video above. And be sure to tune in for a look inside the biggest issues impacting upstate New York, on In Focus with JoDee Kenney — every Sunday on Spectrum News 1.