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Eric Adams: “It's more cost saving, it's better for taxpayers, and it…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on New York City Challenges and Personal Indictment

Published | Video Starts at 23:07

And it's not to say that they're wrong because someone must deal with pulling people out of the river. Right. But what we must do is refocus our attention to an upstream model because It's more cost saving, it's better for taxpayers, and it does not perpetuate the continuation of, of the problem that we're facing. Yeah. Because if you do it downstream, what you're doing is you're managing it, you're not healing it, you're not changing it. Well said. Well said. Well said. (23:07–23:16)

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