NEW YORK (PIX11) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday the city will be able to implement an additional 10% savings on budgeted city-funded asylum seeker costs in the fiscal year 2025 executive budget.
That is on top of 20% savings already announced last month when the city said it renegotiated the emergency contracts that had been made with vendors supplying food and services, as well as shelter.
In a press release, the Adams Administration also announced the cancellation of the next round of agency spending cuts as a result of "strong fiscal management" and "better than expected economic performance."
In a statement, Adams said,
"Our administration came into office with a mission to protect public safety, rebuild our economy, and make our city more livable for everyday New Yorkers. After two years of hard work, we are heading in the right direction: Jobs are up, crime is down, tourists are back, and we are delivering for working-class New Yorkers every day."
"We're relieved, we're relieved the Administration heeded our calls. The city council has been saying since Day One that the city economy has proven to be durable and resilient and these blunt cuts were never necessary and we knew once the Mayor's budget team took a look at the tax revenue that we knew was always there, they'd reverse these cuts," City Council Finance Chair, Justin Brannan told PIX11 News.
The New York Immigration Coalition is also reacting. In a statement, executive director Murad Awawdeh, Executive Director said:
“Mayor Adams is becoming the real-life example of the boy who cried wolf. After spending months scapegoating asylum seekers for what the Mayor described as a looming fiscal crisis that required deep cuts to the city’s social services — he has had to retract his words and budget cuts twice already."
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