New York Mayor Eric Adams made good on his promise to slash the city budget when on Thursday he announced sweeping measures that will free police hiring, close libraries on Sundays, and take other drastic measures all to pay for the massive illegal immigrant influx caused by Joe Biden’s border disaster.
“No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning,” Adams said as he announced the cuts to the $110 billion budget, The New York Times reported.
The budget cuts will slash the police department to below 30,000. The NYPD covers New York’s five boroughs and nearly 9 million people. School safety agents will also be cut, and Adams said parents should step up and volunteer.
“This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets,” police union president Patrick Hendry said. “Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s. We cannot go back there.”
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