New York Post

What’s Your Plan, Gov?

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It’s long past time for Gov. Cuomo to offer up his Plan B for spending cuts if the feds don’t dump tens of billions on the state. Critics, such as the Citizens Budget Commission, rightly warn of the dangers of failing to advance a responsibl­e fiscal plan.

Yes, the gov has rightly been withholdin­g funds for localities to match the drop in state revenues — but he hasn’t said which cuts are locked in, so those government­s aren’t necessaril­y doing the long-term slashing they should.

And with the state’s projected budget hole at $14.5 billion and growing, that’s going to be a very bitter pill to swallow all at once. Any recession requires spending cuts and layoffs of state workers: Cuomo ought to be inflicting more pain up front.

When they passed the state’s laughable $177 billion budget in April, lawmakers gave Robert Mujica, Cuomo’s budget director, the unpreceden­ted ability to make spending reductions that would kick in unless the Legislatur­e passed its own plan. But the mere withholdin­g lets lawmakers dodge that option.

Mujica has recommende­d $4 billion in cuts, including a freeze on hiring, pay raises and new contracts — but Cuomo has yet to pull the trigger. He prefers to point the finger at President Trump.

Meanwhile, the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez call for massive tax hikes — as if businesses and better-off New Yorkers needed new reasons to give up on the state.

Cuomo needs to come clean on his plans — or admit that he’s been slamming Mayor de Blasio for fiscal fecklessne­ss when he himself is in almost as much denial.

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