{"id":146,"date":"2026-05-12T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/?p=146"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:50:40","slug":"statement-cm-lynn-schulman-on-the-fy27-proposed-executive-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2026\/05\/12\/statement-cm-lynn-schulman-on-the-fy27-proposed-executive-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: CM LYNN SCHULMAN ON THE FY27 PROPOSED EXECUTIVE BUDGET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to the leadership of the NYC Mayor and our partners in Albany for closing the budget gap NYC was facing, aligned with the Council\u2019s savings-focused approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NYC Council, under the leadership of Speaker Julie Menin, pushed hard for these priorities, and this budget reflects our shared commitment to delivering for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also want to commend the addition of $11.3 million for DOHMH for testing and surveillance, so the city is prepared for the next public health emergency, and the addition of $26 million funding to combat hate. As co-chair of the Jewish Caucus and someone whose district was targeted with hate filled antisemitic swastika symbols in the past several days, I look forward to seeing these funds used to combat hate overall, and antisemitism in particular, which is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the leadership of the NYC Mayor and our partners in Albany for closing the budget gap NYC was facing, aligned with the Council\u2019s savings-focused approach.<\/p>\n<p>The NYC Council, under the leadership of Speaker Julie Menin, pushed hard for these priorities, and this budget reflects our shared commitment to delivering for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to commend the addition of $11.3 million for DOHMH for testing and surveillance, so the city is prepared for the next public health emergency, and the addition of $26 million funding to combat hate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2026\/05\/12\/statement-cm-lynn-schulman-on-the-fy27-proposed-executive-budget\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases-and-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}