Mayor Eric Adams warned that the cuts would impact every city agency.

The mayor has blamed the budget cuts on federal COVID aid ending, and the cost of the migrant crisis in the city.

Seeing this is being reported uncritically on a few other websites and on TV news as well.

The language surrounding the migrant situation is becoming more and more dangerous. It was only a month or two ago that Top Cop Adams said that the migrant "crisis" would destroy the city. Now we have the media running around putting the blame for budget cuts on migrants.

Here's a NYT article that goes into more detail on the recent budget cuts: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116210120/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/nyc-budget-cuts-schools-police-trash.html

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    hmm I'm not sure that's right

    NYC Libraries' current proposed Fiscal 2023 budget in the Executive Plan is $471.5 million

    https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2023/05/Libraries.pdf

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      Ah, you're right

      Source I looked at was citing "city funding" as the 36 mill I used (not sure where they got that now tbh)

      Total budget is indeed north of 400 mill, edited

      What's even sadder is the additional text I found when I went further digging

      The Libraries' projected Fiscal 2024 budget of $431.0 million represents less than one percent of the City's proposed Fiscal 2024 budget in the Executive Plan.

      But yeah no, libraries are killing the budget

      Fuckin pig mayor