Totally agree! Gotta give it to you- it’s impressive how you forced the mayor to break his commitment to leading progressive & chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He does whatever you want! We haven’t seen this type of raw political power over a NYC mayor since Tweed!
The City Council balances the budget through optimistic assumptions, fuzzy math, and dramatic staffing reductions.
The plan assumes $3.5B in reestimates and imposes $2B in spending cuts that it claims will not affect services.
Speaker Julie Menin’s preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency budgets, which would force the City to cut services. Double counting previously identified savings, overestimating revenues, and exaggerating debt service savings does nothing to close a deficit.
This $6 billion proposal asks Albany for just one action – class size mandate relief. It refuses to address the deeper structural imbalance between the City and the State, or to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations. It effectively ensures this structural deficit will continue indefinitely.
Any proposal that claims we can close this gap without significant new revenue is unrealistic.
Rather than move forward with spinoffs that cling to the original The Lord of the Rings movies, maybe the time has come to give the franchise a full, Harry Potter-style reboot. https://t.co/iC0DO4qzl6
This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.