City Council speaker candidate Selvena Brooks-Powers is pitching a new City Council Subcommittee on Federal Affairs to focus on federal funding threats, Brooks-Powers exclusively told City & State. The pitch is part of her platform to succeed Speaker Adrienne Adams and lead the body starting next year.

The subcommittee would be focused on preparing for possible cuts, chronicling impact to the city from cuts and from possible escalated immigration enforcement, and coordinating with other local governments. In 2024, the current speaker combined the Committee on State and Federal Legislation and the Committee on Governmental Operations to create the existing Committee on Governmental Operations, State and Federal Legislation. Brooks-Powers’ proposed subcommittee would fall under that committ

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