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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: March 17, 2026: Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest Gives Update from Albany Budget Talks
Description: With negotiations on New York State's annual $250 billion budget in the final home stretch, we spoke with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a socialist from Brooklyn. Topics discussed included the fight to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to agree to tax hikes for the rich, how the state will make up for federal cuts to Medicaid funding and the governor's push to roll back historic climate mandates that were passed in 2019.