New York City’s nearly $107 billion budget package is due Friday at midnight.
“We’re getting there. Still a few items on the table. Budget will be on time as the council promised,” Councilman and Finance Committee Chairman Justin Brannan told The Post via text.
Fiscal hawks predict a deal will be finalized by the midnight Friday, June 30th deadline, while lawmakers involved in negotiations complain growing costs of the multi-billion dollar migrant crisis are putting the squeeze on funding existing agency programs. “The fight is really to restore basic services and not fund new, exciting programming – because the migrant crisis is costing us way too much money,” Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli told The Post. to house, feed and provide other services to over 50,000 migrants currently living in 176 taxpayer-funded homeless shelters and hotels in the Big Apple.
The Biden administration has greenlit less than $150 million in grant funding to New York to help – as the city spends roughly $8 million daily on the crisis. Gov. Kathy Hochul allocated roughly $1 billion to the Big Apple over the next two years.“With no plan to end the crisis after July 1st and with 50,000 people in shelters, there’s no sign of this ending in the next fiscal year or anything to prevent it from expanding.
Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala told The Post that the council is fighting to fund several agency programs, including:
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