Mike Johnson: “The mayor says it's no longer necessary to build…”

“This budget reduces the size of government and reduces the growth of government for the first time in 15 years. While homelessness and the immigration crisis are still priorities, the city will spend a lot less on them next year. The mayor says it's no longer necessary to build infrastructure like hotel shelters and he says the rate of new immigrants has slowed. The border policy changes of the Harris and Biden administration have changed our inflow over the last six months. I think we've both built a far better system of services and we have fewer arrivals.” (00:57–01:06)

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