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The pharaonic municipal budget of New York

It is a record budget of almost 99 billion dollars (approximately 83.5 billion euros) that the New York City Council voted on June 30, by a very large majority of 39 votes against 6, report it New York Times.

A record made possible “thanks to the very significant assistance allocated by the federal government”worth $14 billion to help the city recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19explains the New York daily.

Police budget on the rise

Le New York Times also points out that this new municipal budget provides for a $200 million increase in the police budget, “of which 166 million will be devoted to the payment of overtime worked by the police officers of the NYPD”.

An increase in the police budget which has been debated within the city council, reports the newspaper, a year after the start of the “Defund the Police” movement initiated by anti-racist activists in BLack Lives Matter after the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolisand who defends the idea of ​​defunding police services in the United States.

Criticisms which did not prevent the Democratic mayor of the city Bill de Blasio, who will definitively leave office on January 1, 2022, after two consecutive mandates, to welcome the new municipal budget by declaring:

This is a recovery budget that will allow New York City to come back strong.”

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