This article discusses the failure of the New York State commissioner of accounting, Robert J. Megna, to provide a check for more than $150,000 owed to federal authorities for funding a city-run shelter for migrant kids. Megna’s office warns that such holdbacks could risks state funding. The article explains that New York City accepted the migrant shelter grant despite President Trump’s view on immigration, and that of getting federal aid without sacrificing its values. Furthermore, the article highlights that the shelter’s giant bounce house and the slide was the talk of the Upper East Side and that the city could also spend more than $1.2 million, about twice what is necessary, to rent an unused federal building in Harlem as a more permanent site for its immigrant “Respite Services Center.”
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