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Zohran Mamdani: “Andrew Cuomo didn't want to tax billionaires and…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Published | Video Starts at 07:12

And I have experience dealing with these kinds of people because when I was elected as a state assembly member in my first year, I took on a bully. It happened to be Andrew Cuomo didn't want to tax billionaires and corporations, his donors, in order to fund the public schools. that he had starved for years. And we overcame his opposition. We raised $4 billion in new revenue for those schools. And ultimately it showed me that so much of this is just a mirage. (07:12–07:21)

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Asserts that Andrew Cuomo opposed taxing billionaires and corporations to fund public schools.

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