Mayor Eric Adams bristled Tuesday at comments by a federal official that his administration has not “stepped up to the plate” in claiming the full $156 million in reimbursements for migrant crisis spending which Congress allocated to the city last year.
The remarks came from an unnamed official in President Biden’s administration who was quoted in the New York Daily News on Monday after the mayor’s budget chief, Jacques Jiha, had revealed the city has only so far received $49 million of the $156 million set aside for the Big Apple.
