Mayor Adams declined to say Tuesday how he plans to deal with a possible billion-dollar funds gap within the upcoming fiscal 12 months as Gov. Hochul’s workplace once more made clear town wouldn’t be getting migrant funding that it’s searching for.
Hochul, now within the closing phases of negotiating a state funds in Albany, has repeatedly shot down the mayor’s request for extra funds to help asylum seekers, which poses a $1 billion drawback for town as Adams has counted on these funds to steadiness the funds in earlier projections for the approaching fiscal 12 months.
“Gov. Hochul is committed to working collaboratively with Mayor Adams on their shared goals of making New York safer and more affordable,” Hochul spokesman Avi Small stated Tuesday. “The FY26 Executive Budget does not include any new funding for the migrant crisis, and our position has not changed.”
Requested Tuesday at Metropolis Corridor concerning the potential affect on town funds, Adams provided no specifics.
“We’re still in negotiation, and as I’ve said over and over again, we’re going to land the plane,” he stated.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams. (Darren McGee/Workplace of Governor Kathy Hochul)
Adams additionally advocated for modifications to be made to the state’s discovery legal guidelines that require prosecutors to show over proof to the defendants quickly after their arrest to permit them to start mounting a protection.
The difficulty has develop into probably the most contentious components of the 2025 funds course of. Whereas the governor, the mayor and town’s district attorneys are behind the revision, different Albany lawmakers aren’t as sizzling on the thought.
Adams stated he was hopeful that he’d get the reforms rolled again this 12 months after failing three funds cycles in a row to get Albany to behave on that entrance.
“I definitely believe we’re going to get it done now — April fools,” the mayor joked.
“The reforms that we put forward, I think, are surgical,” she stated. “They’re a scalpel approach. They do not upend the spirit of the criminal justice reforms of 2019. They’re very specifically tailored to close loopholes.”
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch delivers remarks at Metropolis Corridor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (Michael Appleton / Mayoral Images Workplace)
“Her comments reveal a complete misunderstanding of both the statute and discovery practices in general,” the group stated of Tisch. “It is dangerous that leaders who are so misinformed are advocating drastic changes to fundamental due process rights.”
The mayor can also be pushing for tax cuts for some working-class households and Administration for Kids’s Providers child-care vouchers to be included within the state funds.
The funds was initially due Tuesday, but it surely was anticipated to come back in late.
On “Tin Cup Day,” when state leaders convene in Albany to ask for funding within the subsequent 12 months’s funds, Adams once more requested the state for extra migrant funds, saying that, whereas the disaster has subsided, town remains to be offering beds and different sources for tens of 1000’s of newcomers.
Meantime, town has not drawn down all of its $2.4 billion in state funding from the final fiscal 12 months, leaving greater than $1 billion on the desk as of February, in line with mayoral funds director Jacques Jiha.
Initially Revealed: April 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM EDT
