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   Superstar rapper Cardi B has reportedly gone after Mayor Eric Adams for   
   announcing a set of severe budget cuts last week, saying that “crimes are   
   gonna go through the roof” because of Hizzoner’s plan to chop the NYPD   
   budget, among other things.   
      
   The 5% cuts — which will kneecap departments throughout the Big Apple —   
   are the first of three rounds Adams has ordered to compensate for the   
   billions of dollars the city has spent taking care of asylum seekers who   
   have flooded New York.   
      
   But the Bronx-born, Grammy-winning artist didn’t seem to care what the   
   reason was in a livestream video reposted on social media, according to   
   the Daily Mail.   
      
   “What’s going to happen to my nieces, what’s going to happen to my   
   nephews, what’s going to happen to my cousins, my aunts, my friends that’s   
   living in the hood?” Cardi B asked.   
      
   “I’m from the Bronx, I don’t want to see my s–t affected … Everybody be   
   like ‘New York is dirty,’ and it is dirty,” the rapper continued. “And   
   we’re going to get even dirtier with the f—ing budget cut.”   
      
   “Crimes are gonna go through the roof because there is a police safety   
   budget cut,” she said, referencing Adams’ cancellation of the next five   
   police academy classes, which threatens to push New York’s Finest to its   
   lowest manpower level in three decades.   
      
   “And on top of that there’s a sanitation f—ing budget cut so that means   
   we’re gonna be drowning in rats,” the rapper added.   
      
   Few city departments will emerge unscathed after Adams’ ax falls. He plans   
   to slash $32 million from the city’s sanitation department as well as $74   
   million from the FDNY and $547 million from the Department of Education.   
      
   Hizzoner is also getting rid of a number of street garbage cans in the   
   outer boroughs, while 34 popular cultural institutions — including the   
   Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Natural History — will see their   
   funding cut as the city’s Cultural Institutions Group budget will be   
   chopped by nearly $6 million.   
      
   Migrant costs will also be sliced by a fifth — in part, by letting go of   
   staff and cutting services.   
      
   There will also be hiring freezes at the law department, education   
   department, aging department, health department and parks department,   
   among others.   
      
   “To balance the budget as the law requires, every city agency dug into   
   their own budget to find savings, with minimal disruption to services,”   
   the mayor said in a statement.   
      
   “And while we pulled it off this time, make no mistake: Migrant costs are   
   going up, tax revenue growth is slowing, and COVID stimulus funding is   
   drying up.”   
      
   Regardless, Adams’ plan has been pilloried by people like Patrick Hendry,   
   president of the Police Benevolent Association.   
      
   “This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe   
   streets,” he told The Post last week. “Cops are already stretched to our   
   breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we   
   haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s. We cannot go   
   back there.”   
      
   In the video, Cardi B also lashed out at the federal government, berating   
   President Joe Biden for funding foreign wars in Ukraine and Israel while   
   New York is struggling.   
      
   “How is there $100 million budget cut in New York City for f—ing schools,   
   library, police safety and sanitation, yet Joe Biden is talking about,   
   ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars’?” she said.   
      
   “We can’t fund these wars, we can barely f—ing fund this country.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/11/19/metro/cardi-b-slams-eric-adams-over-nyc-   
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