In pushing Council members last week to set aside half of their discretionary funds for migrant crisis costs, Adams neglected to mention that he used to be a staunch defender of letting local lawmakers have full discretion over how to spend their so-called member items.
The powerful panel that sets housing costs in about 1 million rent-regulated apartments in New York City voted Tuesday night to approve the largest increases in almost a decade: 5% for two-year leases and 3.3% for single-year leases.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a moderate Democrat, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) who’s further to the left of him, are arguably the city’s highest-profile politicians, and it’s now clear they’re at odds with one another in a very public way.
Paladino tweeted that any schools in her Council district participating in the program which she labeled “drag queen degeneracy” would risk losing their funding.