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NYC Council touts health investments as federal cuts loom

“City and state officials have said we are not going to be able to backfill everything,” said Ana Champeny, vice president for research at the Citizens Budget Commission. “If you can’t backfill everything, how do you decide what you do backfill?”During budget negotiations, the City Council added $40.6 million in new mental health investments. Some of that funding was allocated directly to programs slated for federal cuts. For example, the council allocated $5 million in discretionary funding to the 988 suicide crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers after the federal...
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