Zohran Mamdani: “I signed an executive order that directed seven city…”

“To understand how these reforms came to be, I want to echo the words of Deputy Mayor Suh and take us back to January, when I signed an executive order that directed seven city agencies to identify bureaucratic headaches holding our small businesses back and create a plan to fix them. As we pursued this work, we hosted roundtables, convened small business leaders across the five boroughs to understand their concerns. What we heard was not just an issue of a cumbersome permit here or a pesky fine there.” (09:21–09:31)

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