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Eric Adams: “We had to find $7 billion.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Eric Adams' Town Hall in Rockaway: Addressing Crime, Housing, and Community Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 46:17

… we minimized them for those issues, like our older adults, our children, our law enforcement, our hospitals. We wanted to minimize that so that it won't have the impact, but We had to find $7 billion. And so we want to minimize those cuts. We don't want to do those cuts. That's not the budget I want. We had a budget when we could have put great resources and we did. (46:17–46:28)

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Asserts that the city needed to find $7 billion to cover its budget shortfall.

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