Adams Begs State to Help Pay NYC’s $4.2 Billion in Migrant Costs
- Mayor says city is ‘on the precipice’ of being overwhelmed
- Adams also balks at request to pay $500 million more for MTA
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New York Mayor Eric Adams pleaded with state lawmakers to help the city pay the estimated $4.2 billion in costs associated with providing care and shelter to more than 40,000 asylum-seeking migrants.
The unexpected migrant surge over the past few months is imposing a cost pressure the city can’t manage alone, Adams told lawmakers in Albany Wednesday. Yet Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed $227 billion budget would pay just $1.1 billion of the costs for sheltering and caring for the migrants from Central and South America.