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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Criticism of Mayor Adams' budget practices and transparency
3:55:18
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Comptroller Lander strongly criticizes Mayor Adams' budget practices, characterizing them as short-sighted and lacking transparency. He accuses the administration of misrepresenting budget needs and threatening core services.
- Lander describes the mayor's approach as 'poor transparency and budget gamesmanship.'
- He points out issues such as cutting existing programs like childcare and overstating expenses for asylum seekers.
- The Comptroller argues that these budget games distract from real issues, including threats from Washington DC.
Brad Lander
3:55:18
New York City's need for strong fiscal management has never been more urgent with Donald Trump and his crony Elon Musk slashing federal funding to city, states, hospitals, human service providers, and even brazenly seizing $80,000,000 already deposited into the city's bank account, as my office uncovered last month, we need steady, focused fiscal leadership.
3:55:41
This is no time for the short sighted phony budgeting that has unfortunately become mayor Adams calling card.
3:55:49
The f y twenty six preliminary budget sadly continues the mayor's pattern of poor transparency and budget gamesmanship, cutting existing programs like childcare that thousands of New Yorkers depend on, overstating expenses for asylum seekers while under budgeting by billions other known costs where we know the bills will be coming due.
3:56:10
The city's budget gaps for the years of the financial plan but they are manageable, and the mayor should be honest with New Yorkers instead of perennially misrepresenting budget needs and threatening costs to core services.
3:56:25
These recurring budget games distract from the real issues including the very real dangers from Washington DC.
3:56:33
President Trump's tariffs, threats of mass deportation, and health care cuts will make life more unaffordable for New Yorkers and undermine our city's hard earned economic gains since the pandemic?