The municipal budget is due July 1 every year, and mayors and Councils have not in modern New York City history failed to make a deal on a spending plan by that date.
Adams’ opposition to the package of bills sets the stage for him to potentially issue a veto. His spokesman, Fabien Levy, would not say after the vote whether he will take the rare executive action, but added: “We are reviewing our options.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams has estimated that the city will spend $4.3 billion on the local asylum-seeker crisis by next summer but his budget director suggested Tuesday that eye-popping price tag .
Budget boss Jacques Jiha, issued the warning during an at times contentious City Council hearing, in which Democratic members of the chamber blasted Adams’ push to cut funding in next fiscal year’s budget for a variety of social service, education and cultural agencies.
In a Brooklyn press conference Tuesday morning, Adams all but slammed the door on the idea that he could back off his cuts, arguing the $1 billion in state migrant funding isn’t enough to avert city budget austerity.