Four Years Of Failure. One Record.

New York Is Miserable
Under Kathy Hochul.

Four years of excuses. Four years of higher taxes, higher bills, and rising crime. Kathy Hochul broke this state, and now she is asking for four more years to finish the job.

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50th

of 50 states, tax competitiveness

80/day

felony assaults in NYC, 2026

$11.8B+

city migrant-services spend, FY23-29

1

deputy chief of staff, indicted

Issue 01

Hochul Is Bankrupting New York

Kathy Hochul taxed New York into the ground, more than $8 billion in new taxes and counting, while your utility bill exploded to the 4th highest in the entire country. New York now has the worst tax climate of any state in America. Here is the bill she is forcing you to pay.

Black and white portrait of Kathy Hochul with white arrows pointing to her. Text reads: 'Fire Kathy Hochul' with a checklist: 'Hiked utility rates 48 times', 'Raised taxes more than $8 billion', and 'New York families can't keep up'.

Statement of Charges FY2026

State and local tax burden, nationwide rank 50 / 50

New York ranks dead last on the 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index, the worst tax climate in America. Source: Tax Foundation, 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index

State and local taxes collected per resident $12,495

78% above the $7,009 national average. New York's top combined income tax rate in New York City, 14.776%, is higher than California's. Source: Citizens Budget Commission, reported by Nexstar, July 13, 2026

Residential electricity price vs. national average 4th highest

New Yorkers pay 56% more than the national average for electricity, and prices have climbed nearly 68% since 2019. Source: Empire Center for Public Policy, Energy Data Bulletin, April 2026

Utility rate hikes approved under Hochul 36

A running tally of Public Service Commission rate case approvals during her tenure, from Con Ed to NYSEG to National Grid, each one added to New Yorkers' bills. Source: NYS Department of Public Service rate case filings, 2026

Net taxpayers who left the state, 2024 −13,662

More than half were married couples earning $100K to $500K, the families New York depends on to fund everything else. Source: NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli migration data, reported July 2026

Congestion toll, reinstated 9 days after the election $9 / day

Roughly $2,300 a year for a daily commuter. Hochul paused it for "affordability" that summer, then brought it back the moment the votes were counted. Source: City & State New York, Nov. 14, 2024

Every line above links to its primary source. Figures reflect the most recent data available as of publication.

Issue 02

This Is Hochul's New York

Kathy Hochul chose criminals over communities. She defended cashless bail and let repeat offenders walk free, right back onto our streets and into our subways. New York City felony assaults are now happening more than 80 times a day. This is what her failed leadership looks like.

Kathy Hochul in a gray suit holding a folder on a dark, wet street at night with police car lights in the background. Text: 'Under Hochul, crime is up 22%. Your neighborhood deserves better.'

July 2026

New York City is now averaging more than 80 felony assaults every single day, up from about 55 a day before the pandemic. That is Hochul's New York, even by the city's own accounting.

Source: Vital City, "Crime in New York City Midyear: The Big Picture," July 2026

Feb 2026

Citywide felony assaults have climbed for six straight years under her watch, now at the highest level since 1998, with 97 assaults recorded for every murder.

Source: THE CITY / Vital City, "The State of Crime in New York City, 2025," Feb. 21, 2026

Apr 2026

Major transit crime jumped 17% in the first weeks of 2026 compared to the same stretch of 2025. Robberies alone were up 58%, and a rider was fatally shot on a Bronx subway platform, the first killing on the system that year.

Source: Clubrive, citing NYPD CompStat data, April 16, 2026

Apr 2026

Transit robberies are up 15% year to date even with more patrols on the platforms. Three riders have been murdered on the subway so far in 2026, compared to zero over the same period last year.

Source: ABC7 New York, citing NYPD data, April 15, 2026

Even the good news cuts both ways

The city's own midyear report for 2026 shows murders and burglaries down. The same report also shows felony assaults still happening at a rate of roughly 80 a day, and subway robbery and assault ticking up even as the citywide picture improved.

Source: Vital City, "Crime in New York City Midyear: The Big Picture," July 2026

Issue 03

Illegal Migrants First. New Yorkers Last.

Kathy Hochul poured billions of taxpayer dollars into shelter, hotel rooms, and services for people who entered this country illegally, while working families can't afford rent or groceries. This is where your money went, pulled directly from city and state budget filings.

$2.4B

Proposed by Gov. Hochul for migrant services in the FY2025 state budget, including $500 million pulled straight from the state's emergency reserves.

Source: PBS NewsHour, Jan. 17, 2024

$3.70B

Spent by New York City alone on asylum-seeker shelter and services in FY2024, on top of $1.41B the year before and $3.02B the year after.

Source: NYC Comptroller's Office, Fiscal Impacts report

$11.8B+

Total city migrant-services spending budgeted across FY2023 to FY2029, even after the city walked the number back from earlier projections as high as $17.86B.

Source: NYC Comptroller's Office, Fiscal Impacts report

Issue 04

Kathy Hochul's Culture Of Corruption

A federal indictment. A congressional subpoena. A broken promise on tolls. Kathy Hochul built a system where nobody is held accountable, and New Yorkers are the ones who pay for it. Here are three open threads still working through the courts, the Legislature, or Congress.

Federal case, mistrial

The deputy chief of staff

Linda Sun, Gov. Hochul's former deputy chief of staff, was indicted in 2024 on federal charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, with bribery and pandemic fraud charges added in 2025. The case went to trial that November, and in December 2025 a federal jury deadlocked on all 19 counts, forcing a mistrial. Prosecutors are seeking a retrial, tentatively set for January 2027. Sun has pleaded not guilty and denies wrongdoing.

Source: CNN, Dec. 22, 2025 & amNewYork, Jan. 29, 2026

Congressional subpoena

The withheld documents

A U.S. House select subcommittee investigating New York's nursing-home COVID death-count cover-up under Gov. Cuomo issued a subpoena to Hochul's office in 2024 after it said records had not been turned over. A whistleblower ultimately supplied the documents her own office withheld.

Source: House Oversight Committee, Sept. 26, 2024

Reversed decision

The toll that came back

Hochul paused congestion pricing five weeks before its June 2024 launch, calling it an affordability burden. Nine days after the November 2024 election, she reinstated it at $9 a day, a reversal critics like State Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt said was timed to the political calendar, not New Yorkers' wallets.

Source: City & State New York & NY Senate GOP, Nov. 14, 2024

Federal charges are accusations, not findings of guilt. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven otherwise in a court of law.

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New York Is MiserableUnder Kathy Hochul.