On the heels of making deep spending cuts across city agencies last week, purportedly because of the migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams’ budget office on Monday called for a 20% trim to “asylum seeker expenses” over this fiscal year and the next.
Budget Director Jacques Jiha made the request of the Office of Asylum Seeker Operations in a Nov. 20 letter to city agency heads laying out his office’s demands for the next round of 5% budget cuts that will come in January. The savings initiative would be the second of three rounds of 5% cuts Jiha first ordered from all city agencies in a September missive.
