Mayor de Blasio was in an uncharacteristically cheerful mood as he rolled out a budget April 26 that brought to mind the remark of an owner of the Washington football team a half-century ago, who said of his dynamic coach, George Allen, "We gave George an unlimited expense account, and he exceeded it."
The Mayor, swimming in $14 billion in total Federal aid to the city largely attributable to Joe Biden's becoming President and Democrats' narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, insisted he was simply making the most of that windfall of one-shots. He contended it would improve life here in all the ways that would accelerate the city's comeback and make it a better place in which to live, visit and build businesses.
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