Top budget officials within the mayor’s office are sounding the alarm over the ongoing migrant crisis and are warning that more cuts are still coming.
Without this relief, the budget director said, the city “will have to make terrible cuts to programs and services. And this will cause great and unnecessary pain.”
The Council opposes these budget cuts, arguing that they are too severe and there’s actually more money in the pot to be spent. During the hearing, councilmembers scrutinized the budget office's predictions over the cost of sheltering migrants, as well as its reports of how many people are arriving at and leaving shelters., the Council previously said the city can expect an extra $1.8 billion in tax revenue over the next two years.
“The city’s budget should advance the health and safety of New Yorkers, but remaining cuts threaten to further inhibit our city’s ability to succeed and equitably recover while the administration continues to justify agency budget cuts as a result of the costs to assist asylum-seekers,” Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said at the hearing.
Councilmember Justin Brannan, who chairs the finance committee, referred to the city’s budget as “more than just an itemized list of expenditures – it’s a values document.” “You can tell me what you care about all day long, but you prove it to me by showing me what you spend your money on,” Brannan said. “It’s about priorities. Our city’s budget is no different than yours or mine. And this is no different from the issues families across the city are talking about at their dining room table every night, as they try to make ends meet for another week in the most expensive city in the world.
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