New York City is due to receive $30.5 million in migrant crisis aid for the first round of funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a small fraction of the $350 million Mayor Eric Adams’ administration had applied for in late March.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn, announced the allocation Friday, which comes from an $800 million funding pot Congress approved late last year through an omnibus spending bill to help cities getting inundated with migrants. New York got the third largest allocation through FEMA”s Emergency Food and Shelter program behind Catholic Charities of San Antonio and Catholic Charities of San Diego, which each received roughly $39.8 million and $33.7 million respectively.
