{"id":246504,"date":"2021-05-10T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-bill-de-blasio-is-sabotaging-nycs-next-mayor\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T23:22:19","slug":"how-bill-de-blasio-is-sabotaging-nycs-next-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-bill-de-blasio-is-sabotaging-nycs-next-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Bill de Blasio is sabotaging NYC\u2019s next mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Bill de Blasio is sabotaging NYC\u2019s next mayor<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/04262021_De-Blasio-Budget-Presser.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio calls it his \u201cRecovery Budget,\u201d but it\u2019s actually a sad bid to put some shine on his legacy while sabotaging his successor.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio\u2019s own announcement of his record $98.6 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 crowed that \u201calmost $6 billion in direct local aid will be used now through 2024, $7 billion almost in federal education aid also will be used by 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t leave a lot of flexibility for the man or woman who takes the keys to City Hall in January 2022. And, as we noted recently, average New Yorkers will pay the price.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/on-stimulus-spending-andrew-yang-says-take-it-easy-but-city-hall-and-stringer-have-other-ideas\/\">Top challenger Andrew Yang urged<\/a> de Blasio to save 70 percent of the federal windfall to cover the costs of recovery in the coming years and to reduce the gaping multibillion-dollar deficits now locked in over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the mayor is boosting the baseline budget by hundreds of millions. He\u2019s not just dropping his hiring freeze, he\u2019s adding tens of thousands of city jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Leading candidate Eric Adams has similarly fumed at the mayor\u2019s move to spend the windfall on pet projects that add thousands of new jobs to the baseline.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, the mayor\u2019s even trying to make his ThriveNYC debacle permanent, along with spending $234 million for a New Deal-style City Cleanup Corps that\u2019ll hire 10,000 workers \u201cto make the city cleaner and greener.\u201d Adams says he\u2019ll defund the CCC, as \u201cwe already have a Sanitation Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the city spread the federal money more evenly over a few years, it would have had time to restructure spending to increase efficiency and preserve services,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cbcny.org\/advocacy\/statement-nyc-executive-budget-fiscal-year-2022\">noted Andrew Rein<\/a>, who heads fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission.<\/p>\n<p>But de Blasio doesn\u2019t care. Then again, he\u2019s never cared about the price everyone else has to pay for his feckless self-indulgence.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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De Blasio\u2019s own announcement of his record $98.6 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 crowed that \u201calmost $6 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/04262021_De-Blasio-Budget-Presser.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[105141,79087,5042,70343,69348,43,72182],"class_list":["post-246504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-9-21","tag-andrew-yang","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-city-budget","tag-city-hall","tag-editorial","tag-mayoral-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}