Waste of the Day: NYC Service Cuts Due To $7 Billion Budget Gap, Migrants
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
New York City taxpayers will see their own services cut — police, schools, sanitation, libraries — in lieu of paying the massive bill of caring for an estimated 143,000 migrants.
City officials predict it will spend $11 billion on housing migrants over the next two years.
Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city’s $7 billion budget gap — due in large part to the cost of housing and feeding migrants and the reduction in federal aid for COVID — will mean 5% cuts across the board at city agencies.
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