Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a package of City Council bills on Friday that reformed and expanded the Big Apple’s housing voucher program, claiming that lawmakers exceeded their authority with the legislation.

Hizzoner’s decision sets up a showdown with lawmakers and comes just hours after Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said that any veto would simply be “theater” after the body passed the measures with enough votes to override it.

“Today, we helped New Yorkers once again by vetoing a package of bills that would take us backwards, by leading to longer shelter stays for the most vulnerable New Yorkers, while simultaneously creating a structure that could saddle taxpayers with billions of dollars in costs each year,” Adams said in a statement.

He added: “This legislation also clearly exceeds the Council’s legal authority.”

The package would end a provision that requires people to stay in a shelter for 90 days before becoming eligible for a voucher, a provision that the mayor eventually embraced.

Immediately after the veto, Democratic NYC Councilmember Charles Barron of Brooklyn told reporters that it was a waste of a veto. “I think Adams is being stubborn…. the type of mayor that is on a delusional power trip,” according to The City.

The four bills would have allowed New Yorkers facing eviction to apply for a housing voucher without first entering the shelter system, would bar landlords from deducting the cost of utility bills from a voucher and increased the income-level cutoffs to qualify for aid.

City Hall had estimated the legislation would cost as much as $17 billion over five years, a tally fiercely disputed by the authors of the legislation.

The is story is developing and will be updated