Mayor Eric Adams has called for budget reductions of up to 15% across all New York City agencies to help conserve funds that can be directed to dealing with the growing migrant crisis. But experts warn that these cuts could undermine crucial municipal services, including trash collection, after-school programs, and law enforcement.
All city departments have received instructions to trim 5% from their budgets by November, translating into a financial reduction from the city-funded segment of Adams’ $107 billion spending proposal. However, if the city fails to secure adequate financial support from the Biden administration or Albany early next year, Adams has cautioned that additional 5% reductions may be mandated in both January and April.
“Since the significant influx of asylum seekers into our city began last spring, we have cautioned New Yorkers that this crisis could potentially impact every city service if we did not receive the necessary assistance,” Adams remarked in an official statement. “With the compounding costs of a national crisis impacting New York City, dwindling COVID funding, and reduced revenue growth, our city’s financial future could be in jeopardy if we do not take action.”
Despite these financial challenges, Adams said that his administration will work to minimize disruptions to essential programs and has ruled out layoffs, a claim contested by some City Hall insiders.
“There’s no scenario where a 5% cut at every agency can occur without layoffs,” an inside source told the NY Post. “This could lead to dirtier streets and a potential increase in crime.”
It’s worth noting that Mayor Adams had previously unveiled two rounds of budget cuts to address the ongoing crisis, including 3% reductions across all city agencies last September and an additional 4.75% cut for the current fiscal year.
This latest announcement comes amid the NYPD’s ongoing battle with surging crime rates and challenges faced by the Department of Homeless Services and other city agencies in delivering essential services.
The city has established over 200 emergency shelters to accommodate more than 110,000 migrants. Adams has estimated that the city has already expended nearly $1.5 billion in managing the influx of new arrivals over the past year, with potential spending projected to reach up to $12 billion by July 2025.
As news of the impending agency budget cuts spread, many New Yorkers expressed concerns about the potential impact on city services, and socialist Comptroller Brad Lander of New York City commented that his office would scrutinize the proposed cuts but cautioned against scapegoating asylum seekers, emphasizing that it would not enhance education, public safety, housing affordability, or the overall quality of life for New Yorkers.
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America last. New York City last. Thank you Kathy Hochul. Thank you Eric Adams. Thanks for your unbelievable leadership. I’m so happy I pay your salary. It’s so worth it.
All illegal immigrants should be booted right away out of the US immediately and without any delay.
It’s noteworthy that today’s news reports about 15 Democrat Washington office holders letter to President Barak Biden and Secy. Blinking to disapprove Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver program because of Israel’s policies that they don’t like, but not one of those very “caring” senate officials care to to address these problems here at home. They’re just fully focused on dictating to Israel how to run their country.
Other than emergency services, if every NYC agency took a fifteen percent budget cut, no taxpayer otherthan those receiving direct cash transfers from those agencies would even notice the difference.
Let NYC die. Perhaps a second iteration will be more successful.
I can think of a lot of other things to cut first…
Please stop saying “migrants”.
Please stop saying “undocumented citizens”.
The correct phrase is “ILLEGAL ALIENS”, and it was ALWAYS the correct phrase, before President Barack Hussein Obama changed it to “undocumented citizens”, with the enthusiastic co-operation of the entire Mainstream News Media.
The Democrat Party wants to maximize the number of ILLEGAL ALIENS, because they believe that ILLEGAL ALIENS will vote for the Democrat Party.
If the Democrat Party believed that ILLEGAL ALIENS will vote for the Republican Party, then they would erect a triple-border wall, with electrified fences and barbed-wire and bloodthirsty dogs.
just watch, at this time next year the democrats will have some plan in place to deal with the border, migrants. And then they’ll brag how they took care of the ‘crises’. And then like a bunch of goofballs the democrat voting public will say we must vote for our savior Biden and Harris
I don’t understand. Does it really cost that much to rent a fleet of buses to drive to Mexico?
They should not be allowed in the country without agreeing to do construction for USA like building nursing homes for the old and hospitals for the sick or to do cheap labor in company production until they prove themselves useful or we can send them back to their homeland we can’t afford them need places for the sick and elderly need to build school buildings maybe apartment buildings let them do this cheap labor for usa or we send them back instead of letting these robbers come here and destroy the country and take our money and life
I remember when they used to tell us that migrants and illegals contributed a lot to the tax base and actually saved us. It might have been the talking point when the last Bush was in office.
What happened to this fable? Now it’s the other way around?
These people do not vote.
These people have the right to go through the immigration system before being deported. Some of them are coming from dangerous areas.
There is an immigration system in America.
They are not slaves.
We do not believe in acting like Sedom.
jackkk,
How many of “these people” have you taken into your own home, you loudmouthed hypocrite?
Oh now. Will they end https://www.nyc.gov/site/ocdv/about/about-endgbv.page
?
Then there will be so much violence!
GH,
Do you think that your comment, which you have repeated many times, is really a winning argument in the discussion on how the US should deal with immigration?
jackkk,
Do you think your bleeding-heart sympathies for every woke insanity have any meaning when you do nothing more than excrete them online? Does lecturing others without actually doing anything yourself bring you temporary relief, you useless phony?