Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Council struck a budget deal just hours before the end of the fiscal year Thursday. MKramerTV says the city's multi-billion dollar asylum seeker crisis impacted funding this year.
CBS New York political reporter Marcia Kramer says the city's multi-billion dollarMembers of the majority-women City Council choreographed their entrance -- female members wearing suffragette white, apparently trying to make the point that even in a fiscally tight budget year, they had fought the mayor to restore programs for the needy and downtrodden.
The $107 billion budget, hammered out hours before the end of the fiscal year, was constrained by the asylum seeker crisis, with the $4.35 billion price tag for housing asylum seekers taking money away from many initiatives.$36 million to keep libraries open, And $100 million for something CBS New York has reported about extensively -- a cost-of-living increase for nonprofit human service workers.
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