NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams hinted Monday that he believes electoral politics is to blame for the fact that President Biden and Gov. Hochul have dragged their feet on reimbursing his administration for costs associated with the city’s migrant crisis.
According to an estimate from the Independent Budget Office, it could cost the city nearly $600 million per year to provide housing, health care and other services for the thousands of Latin American asylum seekers who have arrived in the city since this spring, and Adams has for months pleaded with the feds and Hochul to help pick up the tab.
Speaking to reporters at City Hall on Monday afternoon, Adams said he’s “still fighting for reimbursement” and that there’s no longer an excuse for his fellow Democrats in Albany and Washington to hold off on helping out now that the Nov. 8 elections are in the rearview.
