8 April 2021: "You See An Incredibly Shrinking Governor"

NY’s $212B budget shows how Gov. Cuomo’s scandals have drained his power

This is "Exhibit A" in our observations that "the scandals are changing not just how Governor Cuomo does his job, but what he does." Or, as this report makes clear, what he is able to do.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been so weakened by the multiple scandals spiraling around him that state legislators not only rammed through $4 billion in new tax taxes — they also killed about a dozen bills he proposed as part of the budget process, The Post has learned.

“You see an incredibly shrinking governor,” a legislative source said Thursday.

“He can’t get anyone to stand with him and he can’t get anything done on his own.”

And yet, he doesn't seem to have gotten the message. At some point, the people who have supported him will recognize a lost cause and pull the plug. That they haven't already suggests whatever it is they are gaining from encouraging him to stay in office must be really valuable. That's another way of saying the governor of New York is too powerful.