Adrienne Adams: “We have a history of having to protect against budget cuts…”

“Pour through the budget to try to make sure that you deliver great teams. So are there, do you have priorities that you want to, you know, protect? There are always priorities to protect, especially since We have a history of having to protect against budget cuts that the mayor has enacted very harmfully. So there, there will always be those priorities and we can we can look at education, particularly early childhood education, which has been a target. Again, our libraries, which has always been a target.” (14:57–15:06)

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