Ryan Lear on WNYC. Next this morning a tough take on Mayor Adams and the New York City budget accusing him of conjuring, and that's the word, conjuring a fake crisis

that has resulted in libraries closing on Sundays and

other cuts that were threatened and then not implemented. And this comes not

from a progressive opponent on City Council as you might expect to hear, but from journalist Greg David,

business and economics reporter for the news organization, the city, and head of

the business and economics reporting program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at Cuny, who is known to be an independent thinker in his reporting and who cites multiple independent sources who know how budget making and budget fudging work.

Greg's latest article in the city has the damning headline, how Adams played city budget numbers conjuring a crisis.

Now by way of background, here's a clip of the mayor

on Fox 5 last week, arguing that the crisis he announced in November was real.

What we did in November we identified the problem.

It was believed, as I stated last year, we were going to have 100,000 migrants and asylum seekers in our care

with the course attached to that.

Instead of 100,000, it ballooned to 168,000.

So we had a two-pronged attack. Number one, we had to be able to pay for that, but

number two, we needed to start a process of cycling them out of our care.

The mayor on Fox 5 last week with us now Greg David from

Kunis J School and the new site the city will also touch by the way on a new

initiative announced by the mayor to relieve half a million New Yorkers of medical debt.

Hi Greg welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you and I hope I live up to that introduction.

Well make your case regarding the first part of that Mayor Adams

clip that what he said in November about a city budget crisis was disingenuous

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