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Weiner Warns Of GOP's NYC Un-Friendly Budget
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 14, 2011
Modified Feb 14, 2011
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With Obama's budget out today, politically hungry Representative Anthony Weiner gave a Schumer-style presser yesterday that focused on how the GOP's alternative budget would directly harm New York City. How much would it hurt us? He calculates it would cost us like, one beeee-lion dollars.
"There aren't too many corners of the city that you won't see the results if the Republican budget becomes law," said Weiner. By his calculations the GOP budget would cut $40 million from the NYPD (or about 150 cops), $73 million from the MTA and more than $4 million from the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program, which does exactly what it sounds like. And those are just some of the bigger ticket items on the block.
"When the GOP starts recklessly slashing the budget, nothing is safe—not even our safety," Weiner said before making some bad puns about the Republicans cutting the Big Apple down to the core. Now we get to dive into Obama's budget to see what surprises for NYC it has for us.
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