Worker Protection Budget Cuts
Despite pledges to double DCWP budget ($135M) and increase CCHR funding ($21M), preliminary budget cuts both — DCWP from $81.7M to $74.7M, CCHR from $15.4M to $14.3M. Unions and Council members rallied through April. Mamdani signaled executive budget (now May 12) may adjust. Watch executive budget release for restoration.
Mamdani inherited a $5.4B deficit requiring painful trade-offs across every agency. The executive budget signaled potential restoration of DCWP and CCHR funding — these cuts were made under genuine fiscal pressure, not indifference to workers.
Cutting the very agencies Mamdani explicitly promised to double-fund was a direct betrayal of labor and civil-rights enforcement promises. Workers and advocates who voted for him based on these commitments had no warning.