“It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan, and members of the City Council today announced an agreement for an on-time, balanced, and fiscally-responsible approximately $107 billion Adopted Budget for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24). Despite facing strong headwinds, the budget makes upstream investments in working…
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: All right. I got ahead of myself. All right, guys. We’re headed to New York City — my home city and state — New York. All right, here we go. So, since his first days in office, the President has demonstrated his commitment to diversity, creating a government that looks like America, a…
Remarks by President Biden on the Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, folks. Sorry to keep you waiting a few minutes. Forty-five years — for forty-five years, the United States Supreme Court has recognized a college’s freedom to decide how — how to build diverse student bodies and to meet their responsibility of…
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court today issued a decision in the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College: “Once again, a highly partisan Supreme Court is overturning decades of precedent in order to advance a purely political agenda. This decision…
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Public Design Commission (PDC) Executive Director Sreoshy Banerjea today announced the winners of the 40th and 41st Annual Awards for Excellence in Design. The 21 winning projects were selected by PDC from hundreds of submissions and reviewed in 2021 and 2022. Each winning project embodies the intrinsic…
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