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Brad Lander: “Eric Adams is running an experiment of how you could…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Brad Lander's Address on Trump Administration Budget Cuts Impacting New York City

Published | Video Starts at 37:36

What about, you know, the possibility that some kind of cooperation might be a better strategy? And I guess what I would say is this. Eric Adams is running an experiment of how you could capitulate in the most humiliating ways imaginable. Like, no one would ever have thought you could capitulate in such a humiliating way as mayor of New York City. Like, we do scenarios here. (37:36–37:44)

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Asserts that Eric Adams is excessively yielding to Donald Trump in a way that is detrimental to New York City.

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