At his daily briefing on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined a new COVID-19 recovery budget to be voted on in the City Council this week.
The mayor called the budget a “radical investment in working-class people” and detailed five goals the budget would address following COVID-19. The spending plan must be finalized by the mayor and City Council before midnight on June 30, the budget deadline.
Even so, de Blasio was confident a new deal could be struck with Council leaders before the deadline — perhaps as early as Monday.
“The City of New York, as of Wednesday, is going to be passing a new budget for New York City for next year. The recovery budget is what we need now. It’s a radical investment in working people. It is a really different approach because we finally got the support we needed from other levels of government so we could invest in working-class people,” de Blasio said.