{"id":143460,"date":"2025-08-13T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143460\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:10:11","slug":"eric-adams-vetoes-controversial-grocery-bills-citing-affordability-crisis-for-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143460\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Adams vetoes controversial grocery bills, citing affordability crisis for New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a pair of controversial grocery bills that would have forced delivery companies in NYC to pay drivers more, which critics said<\/a> would result in higher costs at the supermarket.<\/p>\n

Adams said Wednesday he issued the vetoes because he feared the increase in prices would burden struggling New Yorkers already facing an affordability crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrocery prices are already too high, so now is not the right time to do anything to drive these prices even higher,\u201d the mayor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adams used his veto power to swat down a pair of bills he said would make grocery deliveries more expensive. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n

Progressive City Council members who supported the legislation said the new laws would increase wages to more than $21 per hour<\/a> for delivery drivers.<\/p>\n

But Adams argued the app delivery companies would pass the cost of the increased wages onto \u201cvulnerable\u201d customers. <\/p>\n

The mayor said New Yorkers can\u2019t afford higher grocery prices. Xinhua\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cGrocery delivery is fundamental for many New Yorkers, including some of our most vulnerable residents,\u201d Adams said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe must always work to strike the right balance between delivering fair wages and making our city affordable for everyone and for that reason, I am vetoing both of these bills at this time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of council members could vote to override Adams\u2019 vetoes. <\/p>\n

Council member Sandy Nurse, who sponsored Intro 1135-A and leads the council\u2019s progressive caucus, did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. When her bill was passed in July it received 36 votes, two more than a veto-proof majority.<\/p>\n

Intro 1133-A, the other bill Adams vetoed Wednesday, was also passed with a veto-proof majority, with 38 council members voting \u201caye\u201d in July. Council member Jennifer Guti\u00e9rrez, who sponsored 1133-A did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for city council, Julia Agos, said the mayor was being hypocritical and the council was \u201cconsidering next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMayor Adams is once again displaying hypocrisy \u2013 this time, by opposing common-sense minimum pay standards and protections for grocery delivery workers that his own administration negotiated with us to match existing ones for food delivery workers,\u201d Agos said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis veto demonstrates that the mayor\u2019s claims to care about working-class New Yorkers and a sustainable delivery industry for New York City are hollow, because he is undermining the workers who make the sector possible,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

Progressive city council members argued struggling food delivery workers are underpaid. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

The mayor was swayed in part by an op-ed written by Rev. Al Sharpton and\u00a0published in AMNY<\/a>, according to a source in City Hall. <\/p>\n

Sharpton argued food insecure New Yorkers, who are already facing cuts from the Trump administration to federal food programs, such as SNAP, couldn\u2019t stomach higher grocery prices.<\/p>\n

A majority of council members could still vote to override the mayor\u2019s veto. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s decision was also affected by a petition signed by 11,000 grocery delivery customers asking for the bills to be vetoed, according to a source.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot risk making groceries even more expensive for the families who can least afford them. Our administration will always fight for a fairer, more affordable future for all New Yorkers, full stop,\u201d Adams said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a pair of controversial grocery bills that would have forced delivery companies in NYC…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,54521,6335,46007,6972,8365,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-143460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delivery-services","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-food-delivery","12":"tag-food-stamps","13":"tag-food-trends","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115023749222026368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}