By golly, she gets it!

New York has been awash in budget-busting border crossers for many months now, and Gov. Hochul has been in near-total denial.

Suddenly, it seems, the light bulb has popped on: The border, she declared Sunday, “is too open right now.”

Governor, you don’t say!

“People coming from all over the world are . . . simply saying they need asylum and the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York, and that is a real problem,” Kathy-come-lately told “Face the Nation.”

And she also has a prescription: “We want [Congress to place] a limit on who can come across the border.”  

From her lips to Chuck Schumer’s ears. Also, Hakeem Jeffries’ – and especially Joe Biden’s. 

And it would be very useful for Mayor Adams to hop aboard Hochul’s shiny new busted-border bandwagon, too.

Both he and the governor have been dancing around the core issue – America’s non-existent southern border, and Washington’s refusal to restore it – for many months now. 

And for too long, Hochul seemed content to let Adams deal with the consequences on his own.

What happens to New York City stays in New York City, right? Except maybe now that the border-crosser tsunami threatens to crash down north of Westchester, Hochul has decided to pay attention.

Or maybe she has polls showing upstate and suburban voters paying very close attention themselves.

Whatever.

So now Hochul and Adams are demanding big federal bucks to help pay the bills – and Schumer, Jeffries and Biden have even conspired to toss occasional couch change their way.

But too little, too late – which always is going to be the case so long as Washington’s patience with illegal border-crossers exceeds New York’s ability to cough up sufficient cash to cover the costs.

New York City, it’s worth repeating again and again and again, has largely itself to blame for its dilemma. Gotham, as a matter of long-standing (and quite foolish) policy, will put a roof over anybody who wanders into the five boroughs.

Thus the city is a migrant magnet. And it will remain so as long as its “right-to-shelter” policy is in effect. And, until it’s gone, New York’s poverty pleadings will be taken seriously by no one.

But a serious move to deep-six free room-and-board for all comers could cause Washington to take Hochul’s busted-border epiphany as an election-year-eve red flag.

That is, if border-security cowardice is causing cobalt-blue New York to grow weary of its near-numberless migrants, what must the rest of the country be feeling?

Make that dreading.

An estimated 260,000 economic migrants hopped the border last month alone. Where – no, how? – does it end?

However, that’s for the (near) future. Right now, here’s an open-arms “welcome aboard” to Kathy Hochul, and never mind what caused her awakening.

But now comes the heavy lifting, madame governor. Now you need to push your clamp-down-the-border prescription to folks who can do something about it. 

Right?

No doubt Chuck Schumer will be delighted to take your call. Hope you place it soon.

Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc