But, Mr. McArdle said, "we still support the basic agreement that has the state relieving the city of these payments".
One leading expert at American University called Trump's statement "a threat to the rule of law, a threat to the stability of our institutions, a threat to basic agreements that are necessary for democracy to function".
The Yankees have long pushed player salaries and team payrolls ever higher, but with the new basic agreement that was made into baseball law on Nov. 22, teams have been given a huge financial incentive to stay within the $189 million limit by the beginning of the 2014 season.
There is basic agreement that the council, outdated because it reflects the world in 1945 when the United Nations was founded, needs to be expanded to include emerging powers.
The Bali Roadmap of last December and the forceful reports earlier last year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have, at long last, produced basic agreement that we have to get serious about fighting global warming.
There is basic agreement that rock "is a form of music with a strong beat," but it is difficult to be much more explicit.
Theologians debate about how we should understand being made in God's image, but there is basic agreement that it means human life has inherent value.
"Our basic argument is that the basic agreement and its related agreements read as a whole cannot possibly be read to mean that on Nov. 7 you can announce that two teams aren't going to be playing anymore on Feb. 15.
The basic agreement, in any event, is that Hamas must stop firing rockets; it will presumably stanch the flow of smuggled arms into Gaza, while Israel would stop its incursions and aerial attacks, desist from assassinating Hamas bigwigs, and loosen its stranglehold on Gaza, with its harsh restrictions on the movement of people and goods, often labelled as a cruel siege.
"This is one man's decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable".
