You can thank Banks’ singular focus on expanding and enforcing the city’s unique right-to-shelter obligation for Gotham becoming the destination of choice for illegal migrants flooding into the country during the Biden border blitz. In the Blas years, Banks also oversaw the rollback of welfare reform, removing the work requirements once tied to cash assistance; as a result, welfare spending has snowballed to $2.5 billion this year in bimonthly cash handouts to more than 700,000 New Yorkers. As the city’s top lawyer, Banks is sure to put the taxpayers’ interests last, declining to fight lawsuits and instead settling record numbers (and amounts) of claims in supposed service to “social justice.” He’ll doubtless also fulfill Mamdani’s promise to sue, sue, sue President Trump — engaging in a war with the White House that the city can’t win.
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2025-11-11 23:46:35
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