City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called on Mayor Eric Adams to step down on Monday, writing in a statement that the resignations of four of his deputy mayors showed he had “lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers.”

In her statement, the council speaker said the current administration “no longer has the ability to effectively govern with Eric Adams as mayor.”

“These resignations are the culmination of the mayor’s actions and decisions that have led to months of instability and now compromise the City’s sovereignty, threaten chaos, and risk harm to our families,” her statement reads, in part. “There is too much at stake for our city and New Yorkers to allow this to continue.”

“We have endured enough scandal, selfishness and embarrassment, all of which distract from the leadership that New Yorkers deserve,” her statement goes on to say. “This is the opposite of public service. Our city needs a leader totally committed to protecting New Yorkers and improving their lives.”

Her statement came soon after City Hall confirmed that four of the mayor’s deputy mayors — First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom, and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker — had tendered their resignations.

In a joint statement explaining their decisions, Torres-Springer, Williams-Isom and Joshi alluded to “extraordinary events” in recent weeks. Last week, the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor, which itself set off a slew of resignations within the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

“Due to the extraordinary events of the last few weeks and to stay faithful to the oaths we swore to New Yorkers and our families, we have come to the difficult decision to step down from our roles,” they wrote.

City Hall said all four deputy mayors would remain in their roles for at least the next few weeks. The mayor, in his own statement, moved to reassure New Yorkers that there would be a “seamless” transition process to find their replacements, adding that the city would “keep moving forward, just as it does every day.”

He also appeared to re-address claims that the Justice Department’s move would leave him obligated to cooperate with the Trump administration’s policies, saying that he was “solely beholden to the 8.3 million New Yorkers I represent, and I will always put this city first — as I always have."

The City Council speaker joins a growing number of New York lawmakers calling for the mayor’s resignation or removal, including state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, state Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mike Gianaris, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, for her part, has the power to remove the mayor from office, but said in an MSNBC interview last week that she “cannot, as the governor of this state, have a knee-jerk, politically motivated reaction like a lot of other people are saying right now.”

“I have to do what's smart, what's right, and I'm consulting with other leaders in government at this time,” she said last Thursday. “I need some time to process this and figure out the right approach.”