Let’s split the tab: Adams admin wants Hochul to shoulder half of estimated $4.2B migrant crisis response

By Ethan Stark-Miller

Posted on February 15, 2023

Officials with Mayor Eric Adams’ administration said on Wednesday they want the state to pick up half the cost of the migrant crisis that has engulfed the Big Apple over the past year — far more than the one-third portion that Governor Kathy Hochul proposed paying in her executive budget for the coming fiscal year.

Adams’ Budget Director Jacques Jiha said due to the fact that the GOP-controlled House is unlikely to approve any more federal funding for cities struggling to handle the influx of migrants over the southern border, like New York, the state should be splitting the cost with the city 50-50.