New York City’s migrant crisis “could go on for years” if the Biden administration doesn’t fork over more federal aid, Mayor Eric Adams’ top budget official declared Tuesday, slamming the already allocated $38.5 million as so puny, it doesn’t even cover a full week of migrant-related expenses. 

“The reality is this is a fiscal emergency,” warned Jacques Jiha, director of the city Office of Budget and Management, before a City Council hearing on the executive budget due June 30. 

He said Gotham is receiving a daily average of 602 new migrant arrivals — an eye-popping increase compared to the 217 average daily arrivals just over two months ago, in early March.

“If this trajectory continues, asylum seeker costs will grow dramatically above the $4.3 billion forecast,” said Jiha.  

“We have been awarded thus far only $38.5 million by the federal government. Let me put that in perspective: At our current daily spending rate, that $38.5 million barely covers five days of asylum seeker costs.” 

Last December, New York City received just $8 million from a $1 billion ask from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which allows municipalities and nonprofits to apply if they’re assisting the homeless and also newly arrived migrants in the US.

The city then asked for $650 million from the feds — applying for $350 million from the same FEMA program, but was awarded only $30 million earlier this month. 

“[E]very New Yorker should be concerned about these escalating costs and the ramifications for potential service disruptions and the very real possibility that this may go on for years,” said Jiha. 

Big Apple budget officials estimate the cost of housing, feeding, and providing other services to now over 44,000 asylum seekers will cost $4.3 billion by the end of 2024. 

Adams insisted recently that the price tag could be even higher, pegging it at $4.5 billion over the same time period. 

Meanwhile, Jiha told lawmakers on the council panel that it’s cheaper for the Big Apple to ship migrants upstate, as they’re spending around $200 a day on shelter and food costs — much less than the roughly $360 per-diem rate paid by the city to house migrants in emergency hotels and shelters across the five boroughs. 

“As a reminder, this crisis is already a year old, and will stretch into the future,” said Jiha. 

GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro, whose district covers Sullivan County where migrants were bussed up from the city and housed in a hotel where a toddler died last month only to be moved shortly afterward, said the cost revelation “breeds chaos.“

“The budget director said the quiet part out loud. They are not exporting these human lives for humanitarian purposes, they are exporting these human lives because it’s cheaper for them,” Molinaro seethed.

“It’s just a level of arrogance that frankly upstate New York is exhausted by when there should be cooperation and collaboration. It breeds chaos and animosity.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul joined Adams on Monday to pressure the Biden administration into relaxing rules governing work permits for asylum seekers.

The pair argued it would at least allow individuals to work and sustain themselves financially while they wait out their asylum claims — which could take up to a decade thanks to a nationwide backlog in federal immigration court.

Over 73,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city since last spring, according to City Hall, with over 150 hotels — like the iconic Midtown-based Roosevelt Hotel — and shelters being used to house them.