NEW YORK — After months of pleading with the federal government to direct more relief toward the city’s migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams laid into President Joe Biden on Wednesday, saying that Biden and the White House have “failed New York City.”
“The national government has turned its back on New York City,” Adams said during a news conference at City Hall. “This is in the lap of the president of the United States. The president of the United States can give us the ability to allow people to work.”
The remarks were Adams’ most forceful to date on Biden’s role in aiding the city, as its agencies have struggled to shoulder the burden of hundreds of migrants arriving here each day.
