Add a humiliating diss of Gov. Kathy Hochul to Team Biden’s endless middle fingers to New York as the migrant crisis metastacizes onward.
Plainly, Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams need to find a political two-by-four to slam at their fellow Democrats in DC or the White House will keep treating the Empire State like a giant mushroom — kept in the dark and fed nothing but manure.
The latest was Sunday’s slapdown of Hochul’s request to use Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to house illegal newcomers.
As The Post reported, she was left utterly humiliated, having already prepped an announcement that she’d gotten a green light on the 1,000-acre former military airfield.
Her folks did their best to cover by pretending it’s just details that need working out.
Wake up, Albany: Adams has begged the prez for financial help 36 times now — and gotten blown off each and every time.
Washington has forked over nothing but sofa change ($142 million) toward what Adams says will be a $12 billion migrant bill just through mid-2025.
Oh: The Bidenites did promise a liaison to commiserate with City Hall. Whoop-dee-do.
They see no reason to lift a finger to help New York — and every reason not to.
“At best, federal aid would be pointless,” notes Nicole Gelinas in Monday’s Post: “What are New Yorkers going to do if they don’t like the cold shoulder” from Biden — “vote for Donald Trump?”
And delivering help could make the mess “more visible to national swing voters,” sending the message that the White House is now for accommodating unlimited migrants, triggering more border surges.
Even ex-Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat whose departure from politics has left him free to speak honestly, blasted Team Biden on Sunday for “doing nothing” to control the border disaster.
New York already has problems caring for native-born homeless, he notes, and “now we’re just piling [migrants] on top of them.”
It’s long past time to get two key New Yorkers, Senate Majority Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, to warn the White House in the only language it understands.
Biden may rightly see no way he loses New York’s electoral votes on Election Day 2024, but what about Congress?
Given Hochul’s thin margin of victory last year, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is no sure bet to win re-election, while Jeffries is desperate to pick up House seats here so he can become speaker.
Every shovelful of s . . . manure that Biden dumps on New York makes it that much more likely that, even if Biden wins re-election, ticket-splitters across the state will send a message and leave him facing a fully Republican Congress.
If that threat doesn’t get the White House’s attention, the Biden team deserves every investigation (and impeachment) it suffers.
