The mayor delivered the dire warning a day after his office said more than 1,000 asylum seekers will start pouring into the city every week due to this Wednesday’s expected expiration of Title 42, a controversial policy the federal government has used on the southern border to quickly expel migrants who cross into the U.S. from Mexico.
“I want to look at some of the security apparatus. I want to look at how they’re moving people about. I want to look at how they’re handling something of this magnitude,” Adams told reporters from Greece, where he’s attending a conference before traveling on to Qatar.
The impetus for the cuts, Adams' budget director wrote in a letter obtained by the Daily News, is the fact that the city government is staring down a $2.9 billion budget gap next fiscal year that projections show could grow as large as $6 billion by 2026.
Ulrich, a former member of the City Council, submitted his resignation in order to avoid “unnecessary distraction for the Adams administration,” mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy said in a statement.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Adams, noted that Christopher Baugh had been employed at City Hall since ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tenure. “This was a low-level staffer who had no private or special access to the mayor and who wasn’t hired by this administration,” Levy said.