The mayor has been increasingly critical of the White House’s handling of the crisis and raised eyebrows recently when he declared at a news conference that “the national government has turned its back on New York City.” It was the kind of public comment Biden was likely trying to avoid going public when his political operation named Adams to its national advisory board, a group of Democratic leaders expected to stump for the president as the 2024 campaign ramps up.īut the legal implications of Adams’ request are likely thornier than the political relationships in the balance. The cash crunch – which some of the mayor’s critics say he is trying to parlay into leverage in the budget fight – has also created some public fissures between Adams and the Biden administration. Advocates’ anger over the treatment of the migrants by the city, which initially set up tent camps as shelters, is creating pressure from the left on a mayor who is now threatening budget cuts to everything from libraries to the fire department and Department of Homeless Services. But what was originally seen as a stunt or political provocation – intended to expose what conservatives describe as hypocrisy among immigrant-friendly Democratic leaders – has mushroomed into a crisis for Adams, who is desperately seeking federal aid. More than 50,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city since last spring, some of them bused to New York and other more liberal northeastern towns and cities by Republican governors and local officials from southern states. He told Criswell that cities that bus migrants to New York City should not be given funding but he wasn’t given a direct answer on the request, the official said. Adams’ call comes as the Biden administration braces for a further influx of migrants when the Covid-era border restriction, known as Title 42, expires in May.Īdams met with administration officials, including FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, in Washington, DC, last Friday. Mayor Eric Adams wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop allocating money to cities that are using the funding to rent buses and send migrants to New York City, according to a city official.
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