Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are at a standstill over how to spend upwards of $252 billion in a state budget that’s already over a week late.

The negotiations continue amid economic uncertainty over tariffs, and federal cuts aimed at city and state programs.

Now, state elected officials are frustrated with Hochul, and this week, the relationship soured.

“I really wish that I could say we’re further along,” lamented Democratic State Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie went all but nuclear on Hochul’s negotiation tactics.

“The reason why budgets are late is because governors use the, in my opinion, the over-empowering that the Court of Appeals gave them, that they can pretty much throw in whatever they want,” he said Tuesday, ahead of revealing the bill.

Heastie introduced a new bill that says if Hochul adds new policy items to the budget with no fiscal impact — like plans to recruit correctional officers or eliminate the primary election for future lieutenant governors — then Heastie wants all 213 members of the state legislature to get paid.

Current law blocks their paychecks until a budget is passed.

“I’ve been complaining about this since I was speaker of the Assembly,” Heastie said.

But a Hochul spokesman hit back.

“If the highest-paid State Legislators in America are worried about their paychecks, there’s a much easier solution: come to the table and pass a budget that includes Governor Hochul’s common-sense agenda,” Hochul spokesman Avi Small said in a statement.

The governor approved legislators’ pay raises in 2022 and Hochul herself is the highest paid governor in the nation at $250,000 annually.

And although Heastie’s push has little chance of passing, the intention is to make Hochul blink.

“The legislators know that they won’t be blamed, but that the governor will be. So they’re holding the governor effectively hostage. She can’t get what she wants, and they will get what they want, which is to be reelected to stay in office while she’s put at risk, so those are the stakes,” longtime political consultant Hank Sheinkopf told NY1 in an interview.

But even as the White House threatens new tariffs and cutting federal dollars to New York, Hochul’s top budget officer says they don’t have plans to cut their $252 billion proposed spending plan — despite market volatility.

“The 90-day pause seems to have remedied some of the volatility in the stock market but now we’re just back to where we were a week ago,” Blake Washington, Division of the State Budget director, said Wednesday in the State Capitol Building.

Meanwhile, Heastie says a deal is on the horizon for a cell phone ban.

“Cell phones [are] probably closed down, I think involuntary is close and on discovery we have tried as best we can to address all of the DA’s concerns,” he told reporters Tuesday.

Mayoral candidate and state Sen. Jessica Ramos says enacting new regulations to get the mentally ill into treatment is at the forefront, especially in the wake of a horrific stabbing in SoHo.

“The slashings in SoHo, the woman who was lit on fire on the subway not too long ago — many different instances of preventable violence have taken place and rightfully make New Yorkers feel as though crime is rampant and they feel unsafe in our streets and in our subways. This is why I’ve called our mental health institutions to be reopened,” Ramos, a Queens Democrat, said.

Legislators are due back in Albany next Tuesday, April 15.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct the year Hochul approved legislators' pay raises.