Mayor Adams says Washington abandoned migrants.

0:00 Speaker 1 But us today is Governor David Pattison, and so many things are happening in our city, in our state, and there’s no one better that knows what the heck is going on. Governor, you will governor, you are lieutenant governor, you were a minority leader of the state Senate. Have you ever seen such confusion in a long time?

0:24 Speaker 2 Well, there’s a lot of confusion. But I also haven’t seen in a long time is the blatant honesty that was displayed by the Mayor of the City of New York on Wednesday, And it was against the backrock drop of all kinds of charts that he had along with his senior staff members, and Mayor Adams said that today

0:45 New York City has lost eight hundred and seventeen million dollars because of the support that it’s had to give to the migrants who are allowed to come here by the federal government. He says that by June thirtieth, it will be one point for a billion dollar hit against the budget, and in twenty twenty four will be a

1:05 two point nine billion dollar hit against the budget unless somebody does something now. Classically, the White House’s response was that FEMA was doing something or other, which didn’t make much sense. But then they blamed Congress for not passing needed immigration reforms in the Senate and in the House.

1:25 Speaker 3 Now, that’s a total punt on.

1:29 Speaker 2 The issue when you’re supporting a topic. One of the mayors of the major cities who are taking the hit by having all the migrants there, and Mayor Adams feels that they should grant grant temporary status to people so that they could work while they’re migrants in the city, because he says there’s a black market now and a

1:50 lot of people are working in the you know, kind of sweatshops that we have been more familiar with one hundred years ago. And their response to him is that Congress needs to pass legislation passing the buck. Then you have the progressive caucus of the City Council. I’m sure you go to their meetings all the time, John, absolutely,

2:09 But they said that the mayor has misestimated the revenues. That is the classic argument you make when you just want more money. In other words, that when you estimated the revenues and then assessed it against the debt, that you didn’t estimate the revenues high enough. That’s how legislatures in the city and the state have gotten away with

2:34 murder for thirty forty years of.

2:36 Speaker 3 Playing that kind of game.

2:38 Speaker 2 Not to be left out, the New York City Council now has its proposals to the mayor which have a lot more resources and criticizes what he calls efficiencies, but really were budget cuts which they called defunding social services.

2:56 Speaker 3 Well, it is.

2:57 Speaker 2 In a way, but what is happening is that our governments in the United States and states and then locally are suffering right now from the difficult economy. We’re in the higher prices to get people to do anything, and the.

3:15 Speaker 3 Inflation not going away.

3:17 Speaker 1 Well, you know when you talked about New York and that the White House in Washington is ignoring New York, it brings back moments when was it the nineteen seventies where the front page of the newspapers in New York was Washington says new York drop dead.

3:34 Speaker 2 It actually said that President Ford said to New York dropped dead in October of nineteen seventy five, which is when the fiscal crisis began. And as a little side note, just a story in my life. At the time, I had gotten a job working for Municipal Credit Union. That’s the credit union for the employees of the City of

3:53 New York. But it is a private company. But because it says municipal, all the state workers thought.

4:00 Speaker 3 That it was the city.

4:01 Speaker 2 So when I called them up to ask them, honey, were going to pay their loans back? Boy, did my vocabulary get expanded by some of the responses I got. And one guy said, I said to him, well, would you like to come down and refinance your loan? He said, If I come down there, I’m going to I’m gonna

4:16 hurt somebody. He said, what was your name? By the way, I said, mister Gonzalez, if you come down. Just asked for mister Gonzalez because I didn’t want to talk to this guy when he came down. It really hit the city workers hard that crisis in nineteen seventy five, and Washington did not respond to it at all.

4:34 Speaker 1 Understood now, Governor, it’s been going on for what two weeks now?

4:41 Speaker 3 It was the longer the late budget. Yes, the state, so the state is a late budget.

4:46 Speaker 2 And I know I’m repeating myself and requoting him, but Governor Pataki said a couple of weeks ago when we had him on with Kats and Cosby that a good budget is better than a late budd Well, he had a lot of late budgets, so he would say that, But it’s actually right if you can come to the

5:06 right compromise. But the problem is after a while, after two weeks, three weeks, or you know, four weeks, there’s just such a just such a dolorous attitude in Albany and a feeling of just forlornness that people just don’t get things done, they don’t try that hard anymore, and then you have these prolonged budgets. Now, interestingly enough, the

5:34 majority leader of the Senate, Andre Stewart Cousins, was the one elected official that did say that she thinks more money needs to be given to New York City to try and address this issue with migrants.

5:48 Speaker 3 That are in the area.

5:50 Speaker 2 So that was I think a positive message that Mayor Adams got for his press conference.

5:56 Speaker 3 But I would have to say that when it’s in the same party, it’s very hard. I think Mayor.

6:02 Speaker 2 Adams likes Present Biden very much, but sometimes your biduciary duty, your moral duty.

6:11 Speaker 3 Is to your constituency.

6:12 Speaker 2 And he feels that the nine million people of the City of New York are not getting a fair shake from Washington.

6:21 Speaker 1 Well, I agree with that, because those migrants are just coming over the border and there’s no checks and balances, there’s no controls. You know, I believe in immigration. I think you know that, but I think we have to control and make sure we’re not getting terrorists and we’re not getting bad people, right.

6:40 Speaker 2 And I think also the capacity to get people the opportunity to work while they’re actually here limits those who there’s nothing else to do and they start committing crimes, and that raises the crime rate and creates a real negative atmosphere.

6:58 Speaker 1 Agreed, Agreed, Governor, how long you ta can go on? Can you go on another week or ten days or what? Oh?

7:06 Speaker 2 I think that this budget will not be passed until mid to late May.

7:12 Speaker 3 That’s when I think, Wow, it’s going to be a while.

7:15 Speaker 1 And have they extended the budget for temporary.

7:18 Speaker 3 They just passed an extender this week.

7:20 Speaker 2 And what it does, for those who don’t understand, is it allows the government to continue at the same rate that it was when the budget should have been passed on April first, So it’s an extension and it’s then superseded when the budget passes, so all of the decisions that have made about twenty twenty three to twenty four

7:43 go into effect at that time.

7:46 Speaker 1 Okay, Governor Pattison, thank you so much for bringing us up to Dayton. We’ll catch up again real soon. Let’s pray for our city, let’s play, pray for our country.

7:57 Speaker 2 And we wish you the best. Johndre, I think you’ve been on the air every day this week. Isn’t that true.

8:02 Speaker 1 I haven’t had a day off for a long time. Thank you so much, and we’ll catch up so