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Brad Lander: “Eric Adams is running to be Donald Trump's vice president…”

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Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City

Published May 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 40:35

Okay. And it seems that one of his top fundraisers has been a support with Donald Trump. Do you draw any conclusions from that? I mean, Eric Adams is running to be Donald Trump's vice president for cities as much as he's running to be mayor of New York. York. You know, it is not surprising sadly that Trump supporters would be supporting him. I will say Trump supporters are also big supporters of Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo's super pac. (40:35–40:45)

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“7,700 of those [Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers] have already been canceled.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 04:35-04:41
“The Trump skinny budget proposes to reduce HHS's discretionary spending by 26%, including NIH by 40% or $18 billion.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:04-06:15
“The center for Disease Control by nearly 50% or $3.6 billion.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:14-06:21
“This budget entirely would eliminate LIHEAP, the Low Income Household Energy assistance program.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:23-06:31
“Entirely eliminates national Endowment for the Arts, Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and AmeriCorps.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 07:03-07:14
“New York City could lose approximately $2 billion in rental assistance funding.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:41-10:48
“That could be 200,000 households who are affected who receive rental assistance now and would stand to lose it.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 11:06-11:17
“The Trump administration placed 85% of AmeriCorps full-time workforce on administrative leave with the intention to terminate them later…”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:01-21:19
“The Trump administration unilaterally has already canceled roughly 41% of AmeriCorps annual budget.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:02-21:10
“Budget reconciliation... would decimate Medicaid and health care for hundreds of millions of Americans.”
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“CDC cuts to NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, already over $100 million.”
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“A freezing of continuum of care, rental assistance assistance grants if grantees don't adhere to Trump administration mandates.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 01:41-01:52
“$173 million are obligated under the New York City human rights law not to discriminate against people based on their immigration status or…”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 01:57-02:09
“FEMA cuts to emergency shelters for asylum seekers. That $188 million includes the $80 million that they stole from us.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 02:42-02:52
“The Trump administration has already canceled this emergency housing voucher program during the pandemic.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 04:10-04:17
“Proposes reducing the Department of education by 15% or $12 billion.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 06:58-07:04
“Would decimate food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, student loans.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 07:52-07:59
“New York City's fiscal year 2025 municipal budget includes $10.5 billion in federal funding, of which 4 billion is discretionary.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:47-09:58
“No allowances whatsoever have been made in that budget for doing anything about the risks that billions of that money is going to be cut.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 09:58-10:06
“HPD's budget includes $269 million in non-emergency CDBG community development block grant funding.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:05-10:18
“Trump proposes to eliminate [CDBG funding] entirely.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:15-10:15
“DOE budget includes 229 million in programs proposed to be cut.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:25-10:30
“DOHMH includes 114 million in Russian Ryan White funding programs into one block grant and then cut them by $27 billion.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 10:30-10:40
“7,700 families I mentioned who received those emergency vouchers, that's already ordered.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 11:50-11:56
“The Adams administration has done absolutely zero of any of those things.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 13:23-13:28
“We've proposed strengthening two different reserves that the city is holding, putting another billion dollars in the city's rainy day fund.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 14:05-14:13
“Grow the city's general reserves by a billion dollars this year.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 14:17-14:22
“If the CDBG cut happens, $269 million CDBG cut. We have a resource to cover it.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 14:33-14:39
“Trump administration has already cut funding for emergency food assistance, cutting funding for food banks and stopping food deliveries.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 16:03-16:12
“Over 1 million New Yorkers experience food insecurity, including 1 in 4 New York City kids.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 16:15-16:24
“Higher ed is another area that has been proposed for massive cuts. 37% to National Institute of Health funding and 50% to the National…”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 16:42-16:54
“New York City's private and public universities and academic medical Centers receive over $3 billion in federal research funding.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 17:04-17:13
“Proposed language in the budget reconciliation would eliminate direct subsidized student loans, substantially cut Pell grants.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 18:48-19:07
“New York City has the most AmeriCorps members anywhere in the country.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:30-21:35
“In New York City, 6,476 [AmeriCorps] members are placed at 616 nonprofit organizations and city agencies.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:34-21:45
“Already $30 million in grants to New York and more than 1,000 of those New York City AmeriCorps members have been terminated without notice.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:45-21:55
“For every dollar provided through AmeriCorps, there's a $17 return on investment for communities.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 21:57-22:06
“Mayor Adams announced a big expansion of after school programs.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 26:11-26:16
“The Budget by failing Mayor Adams executive budget by failing to provide any resources reserves against cuts is just putting his head in the…”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 27:03-27:14
“LIHEAP really covers a lot of low income seniors and vulnerable families.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 30:28-30:33
“No money was added to either of those reserves in last year's adopted budget.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 32:15-32:23
“We estimate that what's in the reserves right now would be enough only for less than half of an average recession.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 32:42-32:53
“Nothing was added last year and nothing at all is being added this year is proposed to be added.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 33:10-33:17
“The tariffs substantially increased the likelihood of an economic downturn.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 33:43-33:47
“We propose putting more money in what's called the city's General Reserve.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 34:38-34:43
“They are utterly failing to budget honestly, like they are gaslighting New Yorkers about this budget.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:58-36:06
“Susan Collins and others know it would decimate Medicaid and other essential services, and they'll face blowback.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 36:31-36:39
“Eric Adams is running an experiment of how you could capitulate in the most humiliating ways imaginable.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 37:36-37:44
“No one else is being told, you must have ice in your correction system.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 38:06-38:12
“Trump supporters are also big supporters of Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo's super PAC.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 40:51-40:57
“International tourism just has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 41:51-41:59
“International tourism still has not recovered from to pre pandemic levels.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 41:52-41:59
“There's every reason to believe currently that Trump's policies are keeping [international tourism] repressed.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 42:28-42:36
“New York City can't do too much about any of those things, but we can budget and plan for them.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 42:38-42:46
“The rainy day fund ideas, if we continue to get hit, at least to have some money there to cover, would be wise.”
Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 42:48-42:57
“The city thrives from international tourism and as an international city, but we don't get to set those policies.”
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