Gov. Kathy Hochul backtracked and admitted she is having conversations with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team about his socialist freebie bus plan — despite initially slamming the brakes on it.

Hochul said it was too early to divulge any details on a potential deal or compromise, but confessed to Politico she was currently in talks regarding Mamdani’s $700 million call for free city buses.

“We’re having conversations with his team, I will say that,” Hochul said when asked about his campaign promise.

“We have a lot of alignment on the overall, overarching objective. When it comes to individual proposals, whether it’s child care — we’ve had conversations about what a rollout of that could look like,” she added.

“Same thing with buses. What’s the overall objective here? Is it to make

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