The Biden administration again evaded responsibility for New York’s spiraling migrant crisis — this time by telling the Empire State’s private businesses to step up while it offers a measly $600 million to offset the multibillion-dollar crisis.

The proposal put forward by White House officials in a Wednesday meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested putting out a call to city companies to provide free services to asylum seekers, including pro bono legal advice, The Post learned Thursday.

The request for handouts also extends to free help educating and consulting with migrants on how to apply for work permits.

Meanwhile, the Biden White House said it would ask Congress for $600 million to help New York feed and house the crush of migrants arriving in the Big Apple under the president’s soft border policies.

Even if the city gets the paltry amount from the feds, the overall tally would be $746 million — just a fraction of the $5.2 billion already spent to care for the more than 107,000 asylum seekers who have arrived from the southern border since spring 2022.

Mayor Eric Adams has also already warned that the crisis could cost the city an eye-watering $12 billion by 2025.

The new strategy from the federal government — a slap in the face to NYC’s business community, which demanded that Biden take ownership of the immigration crisis — emerged just hours after Hochul trekked down to DC on Wednesday to meet with the president’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients.

The governor claimed she came out of Wednesday’s meeting “with a sense they are committed” after being promised a “surge of resources” into the city over the next couple of weeks.

“They understand that a lot of time has passed and that this situation has only grown more dire,” the governor told NY1.

The proposal also came just days after the White House scoffed at the notion it is to blame for the influx, saying the Big Apple’s and Empire State’s own issues caused the catastrophic mess.

New York City is caring for nearly 60,000 asylum seekers — and thousands of migrant kids are expected to start attending public school on Sept. 7, according to the Department of Education.

The flood continues to cripple the Big Apple’s resources, with officials scrambling to find places to house the roughly 3,000 migrants who have arrived each week recently, according to City Hall officials.

Meanwhile, New York City is still waiting for the “liaison” — a point person between the federal Department of Homeland Security and Adams’ administration promised during Hizzoner’s trip to Washington, DC, on July 27.

In the interim, Hochul said, the feds have committed to sending Department of Homeless Security staffers to New York City soon to help process asylum applications.

The governor said she requested a “high number” of DHS workers — conceding, however, that neither the number of workers nor their date of arrival has been set.

She also requested the Department of Transportation help offset some of the transit costs, but did not get an immediate commitment.

“This is the first time now we are seeing an all-of-government approach,” she still insisted, telling NY1 she believes the latest White House efforts were not just “lip service.”

The DC sit-down came in response to Hochul’s letter to the administration last week, in which she blamed Biden publicly for the first time for creating the crisis and failing to step in to properly address it.

More than 100 Big Apple execs echoed the governor’s demands just days later, penning a letter to the president and Congress urging action on Monday.

“Immigration policies and control of our country’s border are clearly a federal responsibility; state and local governments have no standing in this matter,” the letter read.

The pressure of the humanitarian crisis is also dividing the city and state.

Big Apple officials have blasted Hochul for not doing enough to help.

The mayor has said the governor was “wrong” not to use her power to force other parts of the state to share some of the burden of housing the migrants.

“There is only one state of New York and so all of us in the state should participate in this issue,” Adams said Thursday morning.

“We are sending a clear and loud message and joining the message of others: The Biden-Harris administration and Congress must come up with a real solution,” Adams added at a rally for migrant work authorizations.

Despite the chasm, both city and state officials have repeatedly banged the drum for the feds to fast-track the work visa process for asylum seekers. However, any change to the process would have to come through an act of Congress, the White House has said.

In the meantime, the Biden administration has told New York leaders to increase outreach on the work visa process and collect information on employment authorization when migrants arrive.

Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks and Steve Nelson