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Can you confirm that this money was somehow “waste” and “graft”? I am not familiar with the details. What was this money allocated for? Who was going to spend it? How was it going to be spent? Please confirm details.
I think in this particular case, it was to help recoup some of NYC's costs for housing the 100Ks of migrants (some undocumented, some with pending asylum cases, some with humanitarian parole work authorizations) that were being bussed from TX in 2023/24. From my understanding, because NYC has a "right-to-shelter" law, they needed to house people, and apart from building a giant tent-city, once the standard homeless s…
Tremendous respect, btw, to the New Yorkers I met last year. Some of them were unhappy about things like, e.g., having no soccer fields or having the libraries closed on Sundays. But for the most part, the large majority of folks I talked with did not begrudge the migrant families a place to stay even though this $$ was coming mostly from NYC taxes (and only a little bit from the Federal government).