NYC Mayor Adams Cuts School and NYPD Budgets Due to Migrant Crisis

NYC Mayor Adams Cuts School and NYPD Budgets Due to Migrant Crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams admitted he had to cut the NYPD and school budgets due to the migrant crisis.

The cuts to the NYPD include a hiring freeze:

Mayor Eric Adams announced painful budget cuts to New York City services on Thursday that would freeze police hiring and close libraries on Sunday and warned that more cuts would be necessary without additional federal funding to manage the migrant crisis.

The budget cuts would bring the number of Police Department officers below 30,000, slash the Education Department budget by $1 billion over two years and delay the rollout of composting in the Bronx and Staten Island — one of the mayor’s signature initiatives to address rats and climate change. The cuts would also weaken two popular programs: summer school and universal prekindergarten.

The police union president slammed Adams’ decision. The cuts include school safety agents:

The police union president, Patrick Hendry, said that the police hiring freeze — which city officials said involved postponing five classes of new officers — would make New Yorkers less safe.

“This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets,” he said. “Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s. We cannot go back there.”

Mr. Adams had said on Tuesday that eliminating a new class of 250 school safety agents would mean that schools would be “leaning into parents and parent groups to do some volunteerism.” He said that he would do everything he could to keep schools safe with fewer resources.

My brother put it perfectly:

NYC is about to become more of a shithole. https://t.co/l1zd4qgWUc

— GayPatriot 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🌈 (@GayPatriot) November 16, 2023

At least Adams places the blame where it belongs instead of Texas: The Biden administration.

Adams said, “Without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning.”

Maybe you shouldn’t declare your city a sanctuary city. Now you all know what the small towns in Texas go through daily.

The migrant children helped boost enrollment at NYC Public Schools.

More students, but the Education Department has budget cuts:

Only a day earlier, Mr. Adams had celebrated the first increase in student enrollment at New York City public schools in eight years — due largely to an influx of migrants from the southern border. For the current school year, enrollment increased about 1 percent — or roughly 8,000 students — bringing the total number of students to 915,000.

Now city schools will be making cuts at a moment when educators say they need more resources to help the new students and also continue academic recovery following pandemic school closures. City officials said that the Education Department would be cut by $547 million this fiscal year and $600 million next year. In addition to making cuts to the Summer Rising summer program for middle school students and eliminating thousands of spots for universal prekindergarten for 3-year-olds, community schools are being cut by $10 million in the current fiscal year.

Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said that 653 schools would be forced to make midyear budget cuts — roughly 43 percent of the school system.

Fox News interviewed a man who saw illegal immigrants walk through his backyard like it’s no big deal.

Also, if you didn’t spend so much in the first place, you wouldn’t have to make such drastic cuts.

It’s not hard to be fiscally responsible. Then again, it is easy when it’s not your money.

Maybe the budget cuts will wake up some people. STOP SPENDING.

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