With the annual April 1 state budget deadline looming, Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s warning New Yorkers about possible federal funding cuts to major services, including Medicaid programs and school lunches.

Meanwhile, a group of Albany Democrats want her to fight back by refusing to send regularly scheduled state tax dollars to the White House.

“Ninety-three billion dollars will not be made up by the state of New York — it will not be made up by any state,” Hochul said on Monday during an Albany-based press conference in the State Capitol building.

New York’s top Democrat is warning health care and education programs could be crippled, if Washington, D.C. makes good on a threat to cut a flow of federal dollars.

“School nutrition programs, school lunch programs — a lot of these kids are gonna have their stomachs growling throughout the day if they don’t have that money,” she said.

Although roughly one-third of New York’s spending comes from federal dollars, so far, Hochul has no plans to slim down her $252 billion spending plan known as the state budget.

“Deal with the budget with the facts we have in front of us, but nothing prohibits us from coming back in a special session to deal with anything that comes our way from the federal government,” she explained.

Some fiscal experts are slamming the approach.

“Albany is pretending that there’s not gonna be these Trump cuts because they don’t want to be blamed for belt-tightening before it’s necessary because they know that the schools, the hospitals, all the labor unions would then criticize them and not Trump,” John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government watchdog group, said.

But two lawmakers think Hochul should go on offense and withhold New York’s federal tax payments while they wait for Washington to blink. They’ve co-sponsored two bills recently introduced in the state Legislature.  

“We are going to be creative and aggressive in standing up for the state and fighting the Trump administration. We are not gonna roll over in the face of the accelerating creep of fascism that is taking hold in Washington,” Assemblyman Micah Lasher, a Manhattan Democrat, said.

“The first step will be us leaning on our state comptroller, Tom DiNapoli, to tabulate all of the money that it is that we already expect and receive down to the last cent from the federal government,” Queens Democratic state Sen. and mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos said.  

They also have legislation that, if passed, would let recently fired federal employees get jobs in state government and recoup a portion of that lost federal pension.

“We can expect them either to hold funding hostage for their reactionary ideological program or to simply cut it because New York State does not hold a place of favor in the eyes of the Trump administration,” Lasher added.

A spokesman for the state comptroller said the legislation is being reviewed.

But Hochul on Monday said she’s still pursuing big-ticket items like an all-out ban on cellphones in schools, changing mental health laws, making it easier for prosecutors to hand over case evidence, instituting a mask-wearing ban and approving billions of dollars for MTA fixes.

“I’d say those are tier one, got about 150 in tier two, but a lot of these can also break loose and be dealt with in the legislative session,” Hochul said, describing the state of negotiations.

Since being in office, Hochul has ignored the official April 1 budget deadline instead of passing temporary measures to keep paying state workers.

She blamed the slow pace on the 213 members — and opinions — within the Democratic-led legislature.

“The challenge is that the leaders take everything we’ve talked about. They now have to go back to their conferences. That’s just the natural state of play,” Hochul said.