No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today's budget will be only the beginning, he said.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, had warned at a news conference on Tuesday that the budget cuts would be extremely painful for New Yorkers. In all my time in government, this is probably one of the most painful exercises I've gone through, he said.
Progressive Democrats immediately criticized the mayor's cuts and said they would hurt working-class families. Lincoln Restler, a chair of the City Council's progressive caucus, said his group would not cooperate with the cuts. Mayor Adams's unnecessary, dangerous and draconian budget cuts will only worsen New York's affordability crisis and delay our city's
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