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NYC Mayor Adams wants more federal cash even after massive infrastructure bill

Adams' comments come just two months after Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams called for additional federal infrastructure spending on top of the already massive legislation signed into law by President Biden last year.

"We need even more infrastructure investment than we received in last year's historic legislation," Adams said during remarks at the U.S. Conference ff Mayors Winter Meeting Thursday.

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. The new mayor is seeking approval from city ethics officers to hire his brother as the head of his security detail. Adams has brought on his brother Bernard Adams, a former New York police officer who was most recently as the assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, to serve as the executive director of mayoral security. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Adams said that "cities are highly efficient users of government investments" in infrastructure, arguing the funding is imperative to create better jobs, environmental improvements and public safety.

Adams' comments come just two months after Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law that included additional funding for transportation, broadband and water infrastructure.

President Biden signs the infrastructure bill into law

President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act during an event on the South Lawn of the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The White House celebrated the legislation as a "once-in-a-generation investment," but Adams called on the federal government to provide even more funding to America's cities.

"We will need dollars for childcare," Adams said. "Any working-class or low-income parent who cannot work because they cannot find affordable childcare will be trapped in a negative economic cycle forever."

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In this livestream frame grab from video provided by NYPD News, Mayor Eric Adams, foreground, with city law officials, speaks at a news conference inside a subway station after a woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway train at the Times Square station, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in New York.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams.  (NYPD News via AP)

Adams, who took over as mayor of the nation's largest city on New Year's Day, said federal funding for public safety, childcare and infrastructure is the key to helping America's largest cities recover from the pandemic and push forward into the future.

"Public safety, childcare, infrastructure — this is how we create safer, more prosperous cities as we recover. This is how we bring our country back," Adams said. "That's what I campaigned on, and that's what I'm going to deliver for New Yorkers."

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