Bill DeBlasio has done such a wretched job as mayor of New York City, he’s taking himself off the job for a week.
DeBlasio and his entire staff are taking a week off without pay. That will save the city $860,000. Given the $9 billion budget deficit, this sort of looks like a band-aid on a severed artery, but DeBlasio is taunting it anyway.
“We have to make tough choices to move this city forward and keep our budget balanced,” de Blasio told reporters. …
“We’ve already had to make some tough cuts that have affected this city and the services we provide. We’re tried everything we can to stop from those cuts becoming worse. We don’t want to take away jobs from public employees, we don’t want to take away services from communities that need [them],” de Blasio said.
The furlough will not be everyone all at once. The almost five hundred staff members of the mayor’s office will stagger their absences, but still…$860,000 against $9 billion?
This has to be the result of new math.
He added that the “current fiscal year budget is $7 billion less” than what the city projected in February.
Well, thank Heaven for small favors. A lower budget wouldn’t have anything to do with lower tax revenues with the reported stampede of people who actually work out of the city, would it? As of this week, there are 15,000 vacant apartments in Manhattan. That just doesn’t happen on a regular basis.
Of course, none of this is DeBlasio’s fault. Between COVID, the rioting, harnessing the police, and all that, he was expecting help from elsewhere.
“I couldn’t have imagined no action by Washington, D.C., up until this point,” de Blasio said. “I thought it would be an article of faith that there would be a federal stimulus, but there hasn’t been, and I see no indication that there will be for the remainder of this year.”
If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer get their way there will be. Listen to Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana on the topic.
.@SenJohnKennedy "There are times, particularly recently, when I think Speaker Pelosi is one of those people who tried Tide Pods." pic.twitter.com/a890LCwUOf
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 16, 2020
Any attempt to bail out New York, thankfully, will most likely get vetoed.
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