Gov. Hochul is mulling a reduced-priced congestion-pricing toll that exempts city union workers, reports The Post’s Carl Campanile — after the November election.

OK, Hochul never said she was doing more than “pausing” the tolls, but she cited concerns for the city’s economy — not for the political calendar.

Yet this is plainly all politics.

First: Starting off with a lower toll than the once-planned $15 to enter Manhattan south of 60th street is no guarantee the price wouldn’t rapidly zip up.

That’s certainly how Albany rolls: The Legislature is always looking for fresh revenue, never seeking to cut taxes or fees.

And her new scheme still leaves the MTA short of the capital funds expected from the original plan.

Plus, exempting public-sector workers turns the whole “anti-congestion” rationale for the tolls into a joke: Now the “pricing” is purely an added burden on the private sector.

Heck, it’s another step down the road to making New York a two-class city: Private-sector folks also rarely get routine public-sector perks like guaranteed pensions or post-retirement health coverage, either.

All while failing to rein in the “public worker privilege” that helps drive the MTA’s fiscal woes: With $7.8 billion payroll, it blew a record $1.37 billion on overtime last year, for example.

Nor will Albany consider finding more cash for the agency out of the state’s bloated $240 billion (and rising) annual budget.

It’s generally believed that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) was the decisive voice in getting Hochul to suspend the tolls in the first place: Infuriating suburbanites so soon before the November elections would boost Republicans in districts he wants to win back this year so he can become majority leader.

Jeffries also presumably figures that when the tolls do kick in, anger will focus on Hochul, with voters leaving other Democrats off the hook by the time 2026 rolls around.

The best way voters can answer their leaders’ contemptuous calculations is to vote for every Republican they can this November.