Mayor Adams announced Saturday there would be cuts as high as 15% to all city agencies by next spring — including NYPD and health department — in response to the costly migrant crisis, which could further impact the delivery of city services.
The mayor made a surprise speech over the weekend telling New Yorkers that the lack of substantial support from the federal and state government regarding the crisis — at a time when COVID aid is drying up — has forced the city to impose austerity cuts.
“We are in the middle of a humanitarian crisis involving asylum seekers, a crisis that will cost our city $12 billion over three fiscal years,” Adams said. “While our compassion is limitless our resources are not.”
Those cuts, the administration said, intend to “minimize disruption to programs and services, and there will not be layoffs,” according to a press release on the announcement. The current budget stands at $107 billion.
The cuts must be submitted ahead of the city’s budget update in November. If the city doesn’t get more federal help between now and January, Adams warned that there could be an additional 5% cut in January and another 5% in April. Adams also intends to impose a 5% cut in the following four years. City agencies could stave off those cuts if more federal and state aide comes through, according to Adams.
Adams’ announcement comes as the city continues to take in thousands of migrants mostly entering from the U.S.-Mexico border. To date, there have been somewhere around 110,000 migrants arriving in New York City.
An estimated 60,000 migrants are currently under the city’s care, according to the government figures.
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams — who leads the 51-member body that’s heavily scrutinized the mayor’s strategy on the crisis — released a joint statement with the council finance chair Justin Brannan, saying they’re reviewing the letter from the mayor’s office informing them of further cuts.
“There remains an urgent need for increased state and federal support to aid the City’s response to increased international migration,” they wrote. “Tens of thousands of people seeking asylum are arriving in our city at a time when we are already confronting a housing crisis, record homelessness, and the sunset of federal COVID stimulus funds. New York City cannot be expected to handle this on our own. The costs are considerable, and it is critical that the city receives more aid, while safeguarding funding that supports New Yorkers. The future of our city and its continued economic recovery relies on the investments we make into our communities and the essential services they rely on.”
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If small business and corporations and assorted rich people want cheap labor, let them pay taxes to cover the cost. House them in Central Park, Westchester and the North Shore. The Hamptons in summer. Plenty of work on the gardens and restaurants.
Fuck Biden & Harris, Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, Hochul and her cadre of Albany thieves.
NYC is the financial engine of this state, and they all are doing their best to burn it out.
Of course the usual NY haters will come out from under a stone or the depths of a southern swamp and cheer this news.
Sad ...
Here's an idea! Tell the invade... errr, "migrants" that they get nothing. NOTHING. No housing, no food, no money, no healthcare, no school for their kids, NOTHING. Watch how fast they leave. But you can't do anything sensible in Decline of Civilization America.
You think this is bad? At least the invaders didn't wipe out your families and steal all your land.
"At least the invaders didn't wipe out your families and steal all your land."
Give the illegals a chance. They have to learn the "New American Way Of Life".
It will be quick; they already have a hand deep into your pocket.
Biden skipped New York bc he new Eric Adams would ask him questions
"At least the invaders didn't wipe out your families and steal all your land."
This is precisely what they are in the process of doing.
PS - The India... errrr, Native Americans... were very busy slaughtering and torturing each other based on tribes before whitey got here. Also, they had no concept of land "ownership" anyway, other than if one tribe could chase the other one away.
Credit where credit is due - nice to see a political leader cutting spending in a budget crisis.
@ 'Credit where credit is due' Are you drunk ? Credit for what... Bike Lanes ?
@NPPC_doofus
You've watched way too many John Wayne movies.
Toaster strudel and pop tarts will be a coveted item. In the future.
The Northern hemisphere will probably tip over!
If youre not angry, youre not paying attention!
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