Posted on 09/10/2023 6:18:50 AM PDT by grundle
NEW YORK — Mayor Adams announced Saturday there would be cuts as high as 15% to all city agencies by next spring — including the police and health departments — 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.
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Importing third world parasites has consequences? Who knew?
More wealth transfer from white tax payers who follow the law to dark skinned people who break the law.
Welcome to the world democrat voters create.
They could cut 90% and not miss a beat.
Say it out loud, Brandon; "Close the border, Joe!!!!!"
Bless their hearts.
FUNY...DIE!
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
Interesting move. For most Leftists, I suspect that Mayor Adams complaints about migrants went in one ear and out the other. But now, with SOCIAL SERVICES funding on the line, perhaps they’ll pay a bit more attention to the problem.
All that big talk of being a sanctuary city gets expensive real quick. Liberalism is fine until YOU have to pay for it.
Too many in NYC have Stockholm Syndrome. They will not change their support for democrats and their asinine policies.
Typical Marxist piece of chit. Compassion is for family and friends. Cutting law enforcement after the police force in NYC has already been decimated is not compassion. It endangers Americans in NYC. By the way, those people Adams wants to house are not asylum seekers. They are criminal wetbacks that gave money to support terrorist cartels that murder over 100,000 Americans each year. Every single one of them. They all need to be deported.
Screw the taxpayers but pay for Illegals , another Moron Mayor or does he think this will make the taxpayers made at the GOP ? LOL
I grew up in Queens and worked summers as a seasonal parkman. What impressed me was the sloth and unproductiveness of the full time civil servants. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that a private contractor could do the same amount of work as those civil servants with about 10% of the staff, but not if that 10% were drawn from the same pool. Civil service creates perverse incentives for work-avoidance and goldbricking.
Under Executive Order 1234, starting tomorrow, every Federal agency, with the exception of the military, will find their budget 10% less than it is today. If the leaders of those agencies cannot provide equal or better service within its budget, I will find someone who can. Have a nice day.
And before everyone tells me why it will never happen, I am well aware that politicians stay in office my giving away our money.
Democrat whining about “gimme illegals” pouring into their freebie-laden sanctuary cities, are sick; liberal cities and states in economic pain that they happily inflicted on border areas. “Tolerant and compassionate” libs preached the standard left-wing lie, insisting
<><>illegals were the economic engine driving our country
<><>better people than us horrible Americans,
<><>they worked harder,
<><>contributed more to society than breakfast burritos
<><>and committed fewer crimes than those awful Americans.
So if illegals were so great, Massachusetts, NYC, Chicago, etc, wouldn’t be whining, they’d be raving about booming economies, counting the increased tax revenue, and begging for more illegals to pour in.
Everything virtue signalling Democrats said about illegal aliens has been a lie.
<><>They aren’t an economic plus, they’re a disaster.
<><>if they pay taxes at all, (many work sub rosa), it’s a drop in the bucket.
Compare the income to the outgo: costs of social programs they Hoover up like Hunter Biden in a room full of cocaine-covered hookers.
womp, womp
Democrats are like a box of chocolates now ? LOL
A Democrat cutting government programs?! Wow.
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