Adams, who spoke Wednesday morning in an interview broadcast by Politico, said “there is no more room” to house the thousands of migrants who began flooding into New York City last year and that his “guesstimate” on the cost of the city’s projected total response would come with a price tag of $2 billion.
Though symbolic, the decision to not vote on Adams’ budget modification is significant from a historical perspective. A veteran Council insider told the Daily News he could not recall it ever happening.
Mayor Adams’ preliminary 2024 fiscal year budget, the release of which marked the first step in a months-long negotiation process with the Council, keeps spending mostly flat across the city’s various municipal agencies as compared to the funding levels set in the mayor’s November fiscal modification plan.
The overcrowding come on the heels of Mayor Adams blasting Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a fellow Democrat, for sending hundreds of migrants to New York in recent weeks after they arrived in his state.