Eric Adams defends using taxpayer dollars to give immigrants debit cards

New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended his policy that uses taxpayer dollars to fund debit cards for immigrants as a cost-effective measure of responsibility.

“The reason it’s created such controversy is because [of] how it has been reported and distorted,” Adams told CNBC on Friday. “We are required to feed migrants and asylum-seekers, as well as everyone else in our homeless system. … About 40,000 are in the homeless system that are not migrants and asylum-seekers.”