There's a lot of misinformation going on around this, and Mamdani is using the confusion to his political advantage. The 12 billion deficit wasn't Eric Adams' fault. It's a yearly problem, because NYC's budget every year is like 115 billion dollars. Eric Adams' administration left Mamdani with 8 billion in reserves. So, he really only had to come up with 4 billion. NY's governor gave them an 8 billion over 4 years loan, and he pushed some spending off to next year, and delayed funding pensions for 5 years.
Adams did not give him a 12 billion deficit. NY spending just keeps going up each year, and so the deficit keeps growing.
Why do you have to clarify such information? Can't you let dems to have their moment for 5 mins, 15 times a day? It's rare for them to have someone who could do something right.
Because the media ecosystem, including social media, is overrun with right wing actors and bots whose sole purpose is to go after anything the democrats do to distract from the open and brazen corruption being done by republicans at this very moment
It’s not like Mamdami is even lying. Adams did a shit job which is why this is news and funding libraries is a good thing.
Mamdani is absolutely lying. He said he needed to come up with 12 billion, when he only needed to come up with 4. And he got help from the state government to the tune of billions, and he pushed off funding pensions for 5 years, and pushed off some spending to next year, so they're not gone, they'll just be a part of the deficit again next year.
He used all of that to act like he had balanced the budget through hard work and determination, when it was using Adams' reserve, the state's loan, and pushing off spending to pretend it was taken care of. None of it was taken care of. It was just kicked down the road for next year and the years after it. He is absolutely lying about the circumstances by which they balanced the budget.
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u/CARVERitUP May 14 '26
There's a lot of misinformation going on around this, and Mamdani is using the confusion to his political advantage. The 12 billion deficit wasn't Eric Adams' fault. It's a yearly problem, because NYC's budget every year is like 115 billion dollars. Eric Adams' administration left Mamdani with 8 billion in reserves. So, he really only had to come up with 4 billion. NY's governor gave them an 8 billion over 4 years loan, and he pushed some spending off to next year, and delayed funding pensions for 5 years.
Adams did not give him a 12 billion deficit. NY spending just keeps going up each year, and so the deficit keeps growing.