State lawmakers would be required to reveal their tax returns under a proposal in the $178 billion budget by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

You might be asking yourself, as do some lawmakers themselves, what do their taxes have to do with a state spending plan?

The provision is likely a leverage point envisioned by Cuomo -- something on the table for them to negotiate out of the budget and, well, be squeezed on by the governor in a process that he already has outsize influence over.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was not enthusiastic about the proposal.

"I think our disclosure forms that we have to file give a lot of information," he told reporters after Cuomo's budget presentation, saying the push to have President Trump release his tax information is a "national issue."

"I think disclosure forms do tell more than the tax form," he said.

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, meanwhile, was non-committal if generally supportive.

"Our conference has been very interested in transparency and making sure people trust government," she said. "Our conference is pretty clear how we feel about how people are interested in how we're making our money."

Cuomo by tradition has disclosed his tax returns annually, as have his fellow statewide elected officials the comptroller and attorney general.

Lawmakers last year approved a bill that would enable the chairman of committees in the House of Representatives to gain access to Trump's New York tax filings, a power that so far hasn't been exercised.

At the time that bill was debated, Cuomo called for lawmakers to include themselves in the tax disclosure requirement.