How Bill de Blasio is sabotaging NYC’s next mayor

Mayor Bill de Blasio calls it his “Recovery Budget,” but it’s actually a sad bid to put some shine on his legacy while sabotaging his successor.

De Blasio’s own announcement of his record $98.6 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 crowed that “almost $6 billion in direct local aid will be used now through 2024, $7 billion almost in federal education aid also will be used by 2024.” That doesn’t leave a lot of flexibility for the man or woman who takes the keys to City Hall in January 2022. And, as we noted recently, average New Yorkers will pay the price.