“Instead of 100,000 migrants by mid-2024, we expect to care for 80,000 by June and 90,000 by the end of the year,” Mayor Eric Adams said while unveiling his budget Tuesday, saying a combination of strict limits on immigrant shelter stays and “reticketing” efforts to move immigrants to locations outside the city helped drive that estimate down.
In Tuesday’s roughly one-hour-long remarks, Hochul made it clear she’s not an idealistic progressive nor a government-shrinking conservative.
She is very much at home in the middle.