Mayor Michelle Wu can cut down a Christmas tree but can’t cut her own budget.

Now she expects state lawmakers to broom through her controversial plan to raise commercial tax rates to avoid a huge residential tax hike?

Wu, whose salary will soar to $250,000 next year, clearly has been emboldened by her uncontested re-election victory last month, and signs are starting to emerge about what her second four-year term will look like.

It’s not good for hard-working Boston taxpayers. Tax more and spend more. If you’re expecting anything different, it’s not going to happen.

The least transparent mayor in recent history held an “embargoed” press conference (how is that even possible?) to claim she’ll have to raise property taxes on homeowners a whopping 13% – an average of $780 a year – unless the state Senate passes her proposal to shift the tax hike to commercial property.

“Because it’s an average, many property owners will end up paying even more than that,” Wu said at the Tuesday press briefing. “It will be difficult to bear for far too many of our residents, and we need to do something about it.”

The weak-kneed media of course went along with Wu’s request to hold back her comments a day, but lawmakers are unlikely to go along with this plan no matter how long Wu holds them hostage.

She also used her invisible presser to once again lash out at Boston state Sen. Nick Collins for  toppling her tax plan and insist there’s not a single item or useless city agency to cut.

Now the word out of City Hall is that one of the mayor’s neighborhood services aides is considering running against Collins – a typical Wu maneuver to get revenge on her enemies.

She should ask herself: Is this the right time for a huge tax increase? It will impact not just homeowners but renters who will have to pay when landlords hike up their rent.

But instead of asking that, Wu is plowing ahead with a 4% increase in the city budget while not targeting any of her woke initiatives.

Did she look anywhere to cut the budget?

Can she justify every little agency in the city government?

Wu claims to represent the average working person and has been among those slamming President Donald Trump for holding back food benefits.

But you can’t on one hand say people can’t get food, push for rent control, and SNAP benefits and then turn around and raise their taxes by hundreds of dollars a year.

Her political rhetoric doesn’t match the reality.

The City Council will quickly agree to Wu’s tax plan, and there will be only minimal dissent.

“The city of Boston should not be raising taxes,” Councilor Ed Flynn said. “To date, we have not demonstrated fiscal discipline and transparency that’s necessary as we move forward during these challenging economic times in our city and nation.”

Wu can’t even come clean on the Christmas tree, originally pegging the cost of bringing her family and aides – including the mayoral photographer – at $5,000. The mayor’s press office finally released figures showing the trip actually cost nearly three times that.

The trip was completely superfluous and only designed to showcase Wu to Canada and a national audience.

She did manage to release on time a batch of photos showing her cutting down – that is, killing – the tree.

But what else is she hiding?