Adams leaves little room for financial error in New York City’s ‘Best Budget Ever’

Published May 2, 2025 2:33pm ET



New York City Mayor Eric Adams increased spending in the city’s newly proposed $115 billion budget, leaving little wiggle room for economic or federal funding uncertainty.

The budget increases funds for education, a boon for Adams’s reelection campaign, as he drew considerable criticism in past years for cutting funding to various related programs.

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