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Zohran Mamdani: “I presented the President with a plan that would build the…”

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

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Zohran Mamdani on Trump, Iran war and the future of the Democratic Party | Talk to Al Jazeera

Published | Video Starts at 11:21

And in those conversations, we are candid with each other about places of disagreement of which there are many, but also looking for where are the places that we could work together. In this last meeting that we had in the Oval Office, I presented the President with a plan that would build the most amount of housing units in a single development since the mid-1970s. This would be 12,000 homes in Queens. That would generate more than 30,000 jobs. The president was interested. That's a conversation that continues. (11:21–11:32)

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