The possibility of layoffs in city and state government to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic took a turn for the worse when the U.S. Senate approved a stimulus bill—subsequently passed by the House of Representatives and then signed into law by President Trump—that Governor Cuomo said badly shortchanged the state.
Even before that measure was fleshed out, Mayor de Blasio March 24 ordered his agency heads to come up with a combined $1.3 billion in budget cuts. When he was asked about the possibility that some municipal workers could lose their jobs, he said he did not believe his commissioners had "to think in terms of that. But we have a very, very tough road up ahead."
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