City Council blasts mayor’s latest round of 4% cuts across city agency budgets

By Ethan Stark-Miller

Posted on April 4, 2023

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City Council leadership quickly pushed back on Mayor Eric Adams’ latest fiscal belt-tightening measure on Tuesday, where he requested city agencies trim their budgets by an additional 4% in Fiscal Year 2024 and the outyears, saying the measure would “paralyze” city agencies and “harm” New Yorkers.

“Cutting city agencies’ budgets without regard for the impact it has on New Yorkers, the delivery of essential services, and our city’s economy, is not the depiction of fiscal responsibility,” said City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Finance Chair Justin Brannan in a joint statement.