NYC Received Less Than 1/3 of Aid Money Feds Pledged For Illegal Immigrant Crisis, City Budget Chief Says

The federal has promised to carve out $156 million for New York City to handle the illegal immigration crisis, but only a fraction of that amount was made available because of “stringent” guidelines, the city’s chief budget officer said. The number was revealed by Jacques Jiha, the director of the mayor’s office of management and budget, as he testified on Monday during a finance hearing that kicked off the months-long process to negotiate a budget deal for the upcoming fiscal year. During the hearing, Mr. Jiha called the expense generated by caring for illegal immigrants “staggering,” stressing that it pushed Fiscal Year 2024 “far out of balance” and drove the Fiscal Year 2025 budget gap “to a very high level.”...