Now that she’s been elected to a full term, Gov. Kathy Hochul is more open to discussing how state taxpayers may help the Big Apple with its $1 billion migrant crisis — after insisting it was a federal problem during the campaign.

Hochul revealed Friday that Mayor Eric Adams asked for emergency aid from the state after apparently being rebuffed by the White House.

“Not officially, not officially,” she said in response to a question from The Post.

“But we told you we’d have conversations about this in the next budget. We just haven’t had the official conversation.”

Hochul added that she told Adams that the state “would be as helpful as we need to be.”

The governor’s remarks in Puerto Rico, where she’s attending the annual Somos political conference, followed Thursday’s revelation that the city will be closing the controversial and costly migrant tent city on Randall’s Island and replacing it with the Watson Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Adams spent about $750,000 building the tent city and an earlier one, at Orchard Beach in The Bronx, that was relocated due to potential flooding and community concerns.

City Hall has has refused to release operating costs and any other expenses associated with the two projects and their dismantling.

On Friday, two residents of the tent city — which provides three meals a day, laundry service and a cushy lounge with couches, flat-screen TVs and Xbox video game consoles — estimated that about 300 migrants were living there.

“They are going to send us to a hotel where it will just be you and another person in each room,” Venezuelan migrant Jesus Miguel Hernandes, 35, told The Post. “It will be much better to have more privacy and more tranquility.”

Last month, Hochul got exasperated during a news conference when the subject of paying for the city’s migrant-related costs came up as she was trying to fend off surging Republican challenger Lee Zeldin.

“We really are looking for a federal response to this – to take ownership of a crisis — and we’ll be there to help but this belongs to the federal government,” she said at the time.

Those remarks came as Zeldin warned that officials would “raise taxes” to pay for “sanctuary state policies” including the $2 billion “Excluded Workers Fund” for illegal immigrants who weren’t eligible for federal COVID-19 relief checks.

On Friday, Hochul said the flow of migrants to the Big Apple — now around 24,000 — “has not been increasing at all” since President Biden struck a deal to return Venezuelan migrants to Mexico.

Hochul also said upstate cities would start welcoming migrants once they received work permits, which takes at least six months after they apply for asylum in the US.

“So, I’m getting calls from all over the state. Mayors are saying to people, ‘Come here, come here,” she said. “So, but let’s just make sure they’re stabilized. They want to go there. They’re not pawns.”

In September, The Post exclusively revealed that Adams had asked the White House for at least $500 million in emergency federal funding to deal with the migrant crisis.

But that request has yet to be granted and prospects are grim following Tuesday’s midterm elections and the likelihood that Republicans will regain control of the House and possibly the Senate.

Last month, Adams declared a state of emergency over the migrant crisis and said it would cost the city $1 billion to provide housing and social services.

As of Wednesday, more than 23,800 migrants had arrived in the city and more than 17,500 were being housed in 55 emergency shelters and the controversial tent city on Randall’s Island, according to City Hall.

Meanwhile, the leader of an Islamic house of worship that’s been sheltering Senegalese migrants from Brazil told The Post on Friday that the pace of arrivals had yet to abate.

“We had 10 more Senegalese migrants arrive late last night and early this morning,” said Imam Omar Niass of the Masjid Ansaru-Deen in The Bronx. “It is the most that have arrived in one day for two weeks.”

Niass — who last week sent more than 100 Senegalese migrants to the tent city — also said “I’m still getting so many phone calls saying ‘I’m coming,’ ‘I’m coming,’ ‘I’m coming.'”

“Some families in Senegal are calling me saying: ‘My son is at the border and he is coming to your mosque.’ I cannot say no to them,” he added.

Niass said he was confident the additional arrivals would be welcomed at the Watson Hotel.

“I was struggling to look after these people and Eric Adams took 135 people off my hands in one shot,” he said. “”I will not stop praying for Eric Adams.”

A Senegalese migrant who flew from San Diego to JFK Airport on Thursday after crossing the border at Tijuana said, “Of course, there are a lot more men from Senegal coming to New York.”

“Some of them are right now in detention on the border,” said Cheikh Fam, 25. “There are more and more and more coming.”

Niass, who translated Fam’s words from Wolof to English, said, “He saw New York on the TV and wanted to come here for a better life.”

“He knows America is more safe, more peaceful and a better life. He wants to change his last name to ‘New York,”‘ Niass said.

Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks and Bernadette Hogan