There isn't much that unites Democrats and Republicans these days, but Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has managed to do just that with his 2020 state budget plan.

Cuomo wants to slash a program that provides hundreds of millions of dollars in direct aid to local governments.

Hundreds of towns and villages across the state – including all but three in Buffalo Niagara – would lose their funding entirely, and that's riling supervisors and mayors on both sides of the aisle.

"They're not playing any favorites," said Orchard Park Supervisor Patrick J. Keem, a Republican who is president of the Association of Erie County Governments. "It affects all of us."

Local leaders already complained that the state had kept the money provided in the Aid and Incentives for Municipalities – or AIM – program flat in recent years. Now, they say, the deep cuts make it harder to balance their budgets and they are lobbying state legislators to restore the funding.