ALBANY – State Democrats are unlikely to finalize a budget this week because Gov. Hochul wants to personally sign off on all matters big and small rather than empowering subordinates, sources said Wednesday.

“It’s almost like there is a nervousness of closing anything,” a legislative source told The Post Wednesday. “At some point, you have to trust your team – and there seems to be a lack of trust.”

Sources also say Hochul has a penchant for shifting objectives in her discussions with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) that have dragged almost three weeks past an original April 1 deadline.

“[She] won’t even allow staff [negotiations] on many issues till she gets sign off on her priority issues,” a second legislative source told The Post. “But then she throws in new [or] added priority issues so staff still can’t get work done negotiating.”

Hochul reportedly is on the brink of winning changes to controversial limits on cash bail, eliminating the existing law requiring judges impose the “least restrictive” conditions to ensure criminal defendants show up to court.

“It’s very, very close,” Stewart-Cousins told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday.

But Hochul’s proposed changes to criminal discovery laws that prosecutors blame for a deluge of dropped cases have complicated her effort to seal the deal — especially since the discovery pitch was absent from the budget plan she unveiled Feb. 1.

The governor also floated changes to state climate goals that would have allowed more natural gas emissions in the future before dropping the idea days later following an outcry from environmentalists.

“The frustration is that Hochul and her team don’t know what they want and many lawmakers feel she is incompetent,” an Assembly source said Wednesday. “Heastie’s frustrated. They don’t seem to have a game plan.”

State lawmakers are expected to pass and Hochul sign a fourth short-term budget extender Thursday to keep the state government running through April 24.

“Governor Hochul is laser-focused on delivering for New Yorkers on the issues they care about — making New York safer, more affordable, and more livable,” Hochul spokeswoman Hazel Crampton-Hays said in response to the criticism.

The three sides do appear to be making progress on a budget expected to exceed Hochul’s $227 billion proposal after she dropped a key plank of her plans to build 800,000 new housing units by imposing growth targets on localities that would undermine local zoning control – anathema to suburban legislators concerned about their political future.

Lawmakers are still pushing for funding that would incentivize more development despite suggestions from Hochul that she would not consider a plan that lacked mandates experts say are necessary to get more units built where they are needed the most.

“This housing proposal came out in February, and people were expected to accept it in March and I just know human nature well enough to know that people don’t change things that they have habitually done without some kind of incentive,” Stewart-Cousins said.

A budget deal is not going to happen “this week,” she added ahead of Thursday’s expected extender vote.

Hochul may not deserve all the blame for the slow pace of negotiations.

State legislators will be back in their districts after Thursday’s extender vote for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr — marking the end of Ramadan — even though they did not take it off last year, potentially limiting the ability of legislative leaders to consult their conferences on key developments.

Heastie and Stewart-Cousins also face ongoing pressure from the political left to include so-called “Good Cause” tenant protections, which Hochul appears to oppose, in a final budget.

Some rank-and-file progressives are also keeping up a stubborn fight against any efforts to overhaul limits on cash bail.

“Nothing is finalized,” Heastie said Tuesday. “I need to understand what an entire package looks like. … I have to talk to the members.”

“The reason that neither of them have been able to shut [rebellious lawmakers] down is because they’re not able to manage their conferences effectively,” a source familiar with the negotiations said of the Assembly and state Senate leaders.

Meanwhile, needing gubernatorial approval has hardly been an obstacle during past complex legislative issues — like Hochul’s push to create a “Cap-and-Invest” program charging polluters.

“I think when it comes to big decisions, I think everyone has to check with their principal,” the source added. “I don’t think that that’s unusual in any way.”

But the first legislative source insisted that Hochul has fixated on one “minor thing” after another while holding out for concessions from her fellow Democrats.

Hochul has made a point of projecting a more congenial leadership style than her predecessor, disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but observers say that approach does not seem to be getting her far in her second round of budget talks as governor.

“Cuomo played three-dimensional chess in knowing what he wanted and would anger people in trying to get it in the process,” an Assembly source said. “By comparison, Hochul and her people are still learning to tie their shoes. They don’t know how to do politics.”

With reporting by Carl Campanile.