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Commentary By E. J. McMahon

Will Cuomo Stand His Ground Against the Progressive Agenda?

Getting a jump on the arrival of the Democrats’ big new Senate majority in Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week delivered a preview of his annual State of the State Address. He used it to remind his fellow Democrats of the many areas where they agree — but also to draw a few lines he won’t cross.

The speech was a medley of familiar Cuomo themes, including heavy doses of Trump-bashing as well as repeated invocations of Franklin Roosevelt as the governor’s model.

Cuomo renewed support for liberal positions on issues ranging from abortion and gun control to campaign-finance rule changes. The new addition to the list was the governor’s belated but not-unexpected embrace of pot legalization.

Mindful of where the buck (literally) stops in the Capitol, Cuomo also deflected the two biggest potential budget-busters tacitly embraced by the new Senate majority: a state-run single-payer health system and a further boost in New York’s $27 billion school-aid formula.

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E.J. McMahon is research director at the Empire Center for Public Policy and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

This piece originally appeared in New York Post