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Council Member Restler's concluding remarks on federal funding advocacy
2:06:53
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80 sec
Council Member Restler emphasizes the potential devastating impact of the Republican House bill on New York's budget and calls for stronger advocacy from city leadership.
- Restler stresses the unprecedented scale of potential funding cuts ($15 billion) to New York State
- He highlights the broad ramifications on various city services and vulnerable populations
- Restler criticizes the lack of vocal opposition from the mayor's office
- He urges the mayor to advocate more strongly for New Yorkers' needs
- Director Jiha assures that the mayor continues to advocate for New Yorkers and they will keep fighting for federal funding
Lincoln Restler
2:06:53
I appreciate that.
2:06:54
I think you've spent many distinguished years in government at the state level, at the city level.
2:07:01
I can't imagine that you've ever seen a bill come out of Washington that would be so catastrophic to the budget of New York State and New York City as what the house just passed.
2:07:10
A $15,000,000,000 cut in funding to the state of New York, more than 5% of their budget, would have broad ramifications on our abilities to fund parks and public safety and school and education early childhood education schools.
2:07:23
And hospitals and more.
2:07:25
It would the the the scale of the devastation that this bill would have on vulnerable New Yorkers and on everything that we care about really can't be understated.
2:07:37
And so I've appreciated that we've had Molly Park and Mitch Katz and some of the leaders in this administration speak up about just how catastrophic this would be, but we've heard crickets from the other side of city hall.
2:07:48
And I know that you get how bad this would be for our budget and that it would lead to horrible decisions that we do not want to make and cuts that we desperately want to avoid.
2:07:58
And I hope the mayor starts to listen and get with the program as well because his voice matters here, and it would be a helpful thing for him to advocate for the needs of New Yorkers.
2:08:06
Thank you very much.
Jacques Jiha
2:08:07
The mayor has continued to advocate for on New Yorkers, and we will continue we'll continue to fight for New Yorkers.