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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced a nearly $100 billion budget deal Wednesday that boosts spending by $10 billion, restores pandemic cuts, increases education funding and even puts $1 billion in a new rainy-day fund.
But for all the self-congratulations at a City Hall news conference, budget experts, comptrollers and advocates for a range of causes assailed the plan as unsustainable — saying it will leave billions in budget deficits for the next mayor.
Critics also pointed to $1 billion in federal aid earmarked for recurring expenditures like the expansion of Pre-K and no effort to wring substantial savings from poorly performing programs or the municipal labor force.
“This is a missed opportunity when you have so many resources to restructure government to be sustainable in 2024 and 2025 and to stabilize the city’s finances,” said Andrew Rein, president of the non-partisan Citizens Budget Commission.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer, a defeated candidate for mayor, criticized the use of federal money for Pre-K and called for more reserves. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said revenues must be identified to pay for new and expanded programs. And Councilmember Brad Lander, who is battling Johnson to succeed Stringer, voted against the budget, saying it lacks transparency on the use of the federal aid.
“I favor expanding Pre-K, but you have to do it with a plan to pay for it in the long run,” Lander said. “Rolling back on cutting the workforce through attrition and counting on $1 billion in labor savings you have been promising for three years is not a real plan.”
Lander is a douchebag, but it's fair to say that it would be better if he's comptroller than super shady big spender Cojo.
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$113 Million for thrivenyc WTF? THey still haven't accounted for the first $1 Billion...
As if NYC didn't vote bad enough, they voted those two turds as 1 and 2! LOL WHITE MENZ
Two New York Smucks elected by the Sheeple !
Joe Manchin is the only intelligent Democrat I've seen in the past 5 years !
Taxpayers money being wasted and socialist Democrats are a waste.
Thank the Sheeple tax payers for electing this GARBAGE !
$100 billion budget for 8.5 million residents. That's about $12000 per resident!
Since 2019, shootings have more than doubled by 105.1 percent, the official CompStat figures show. Yet no money for hiring more police ?
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next. ~Abraham Lincoln
Pre-K?
Why don't they just call it taxpayer dole babysitting service or incentive to have more kids you cant afford or supervise?
Why the F_ am I with no kids to pay for some illegal or Breezy Point Irish 8, 9 kids so they can work and earn more money ?
This socialism nonsense is out of control.
Pre-K is completely useless, Its only a boon for some DOE employee.
There should be a limit how many times a parent can use this service, 2 kids free on the taxpayer...then THEY pay. Such is more the fare.
This isn't Denmark or Norway
The city can not afford this, 500 billion can both rebuild Rikers Island and re-fund the police to stop all this crime.
That would be debt that would benefit all, not just the get-overs, cockroaches & slobs
As bad as these people are. The republicans are much worse. Sad state of affairs.
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