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In a private briefing with City Council members before the afternoon executive budget announcement, Adams lamented he had to use city resources to plug the $1 billion hole after Gov. Hochul and state lawmakers balked at providing the extra funding.
⁘The state did not give us one dollar for the migrant and asylum seeker issue ⁘ This is unacceptable,⁘ Adams bristled in the virtual briefing, according to a recording of it obtained by the Daily News.
Adams — who's facing a difficult path to reelection this year — has this week touted his 2026 fiscal year executive budget as a major achievement, issuing a statement before the unveiling saying it's the type of plan ⁘that my family needed, and, with it, we're saying to working families: your city has your back."
The executive budget release marks the start of the last sprint of budget negotiations, as the mayor and the Council now need to hammer out a finalized deal on the 2026 fiscal year plan before July 1. Unlike several of Adams' previous executive budgets, the latest one doesn't include any significant cuts to city services.
It also includes about $3.4 billion to support a uniformed workforce of about 34,000 NYPD officers in the 2026 fiscal year, which starts July 1. He announced earlier week that the city, thanks to new recruitment efforts, is on track to get 35,000 officers on the force by fall 2026, matching pre-pandemic levels after years of attrition problems in the department.
That falls short of the minimum $112 million the Council says is necessary for universal 3-K. The mayor's plan does match the Council's request for a $55 million increase in funding for pre-K special education seats, though.
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