On his way out of the door, city Comptroller Brad Lander warns of a $10 billion budget hole next year, growing to $13 billion the next — challenges that will surely dent Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s freebie-filled socialist agenda.
Lander, of course, blames Mayor Eric Adams, when in fact the looming fiscal hole would’ve been worse if Adams hadn’t pushed back at the wild spending “adds” favored by the City Council and Lander.
And of course, much of City Hall’s extra spending these last three years was the result of housing more than 115,000 “asylum seekers” who flooded into the Big Apple — a migration that Lander, Mamdani and other lefties welcome, even as they aim to resist all ICE efforts to apprehend even the most violent criminal “refugees.”…