Despite criticism over state lawmakers hiking their own salaries while other struggles go unaddressed, Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to say Friday whether she would block the pay bump passed by the state Senate and Assembly in a special session Thursday.

“I have many bills on my desk … so I will address that in proper time,” Hochul said when asked about the potential pay raises at an unrelated press conference outside Albany.

Her reticence comes as Republicans continued to blast Democrats’ move to increase salaries for members of the state Senate and Assembly from $110,000 to $142,000 per year while imposing some limits on outside income.

“After yesterday, New York now leads the nation in two categories: State Legislature pay rate, and population loss,” state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt tweeted. “One Party Rule has consequences.”

Not a single Republican in either chamber voted for the pay raise that passed both chambers by narrow margins, despite Democrats’ big majorities in both chambers.

Hochul could block the proposal in the coming weeks, though Republicans say they are hardly optimistic she will veto legislation sponsored by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers).

“If @GovKathyHochul had any political courage, she would not only veto the ridiculous $32,000 pay raise, she would have called us back for a special session to deal with the disastrous cashless bail. Instead, it’s business as usual in Albany. Merry Christmas!” Assemblyman Michael Lawler (R-Rockland), who was elected to Congress in November, tweeted Friday.

The governor — who is locked in a fight with progressives and labor unions over her nominee to lead the Court of Appeals — has until January 30 to act on the bill.

She expressed support for pay increases last week while adding that the Legislature ought to also limit the amount of moonlighting money they can make.

“That seems to be, if you’re having a pay increase, that that would be something that I would think — in the interest of transparency and accountability — that people would expect,” she told reporters.

Her administration then proposed changes to controversial limits on cash bail following criticism from Republicans and some Democrats about her support for raising legislative salaries in a special session after rejecting for months the idea of beckoning lawmakers back to Albany to address rising crime and other issues.

The approved bill language would allow state legislators to make no more than $35,000 per year in outside income once new rules take effect in 2025, though they would get the $32,000 pay increase starting in January.

A veto of legislative pay raises would complicate Hochul’s relationship with state lawmakers at a testy time for Albany Democrats as they get ready for the regularly scheduled legislation that begins in January ahead of the April 1 state budget deadline.

Good-government activists have blasted the pay proposal as leaving too much wiggle room for legislators to continue making income well above the cap — which could create an opening for Hochul to justify a veto.

“The bill does not prohibit outside income from entities where the legislator would have a fiduciary responsibility to a client. A number of exceptions are included, such as retirement income from the state, income earned from military service, and certain earnings from family businesses,” reads a Dec. 20 statement from Reinvent Albany, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group, Citizens Union and Common Cause NY.

Such critics say Hochul still has a chance to show her commitment to reforming Albany by rejecting the pay raise bill and then renegotiating a pay increase for lawmakers next year alongside stricter limits on making money outside their day jobs.

“There could be better controls on outside income and that’s consistent with the governor’s support for reforming ethics in the state of New York,” Rachel Fauss of Reinvent Albany told The Post on Friday.