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Zohran Mamdani Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Policies on The Breakfast Club

Published June 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 23:18

I said, this was a campaign about New Yorkers who have built this city, who are being pushed out of this city. And I said that I was gonna do three things. I was gonna freeze the rent. I was gonna make the slowest buses in America fast and free. I was gonna deliver universal childcare. And it got to the point where I can go to a rally and I can say, I'm gonna freeze the. (23:18–23:22)

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Proposes to improve and make public buses free in New York City.

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“Ridership went up by up to 38% [on the free bus routes].”
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“Assaults on bus drivers went down by 38.9% [on the free bus routes].”
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“65% of crimes from the first quarter of this year are currently unresolved.”
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“Right now, I'll tell you, you want to open a barbershop in New York City, you got to go to seven different agencies, fill out 24 forms, and…”
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“Sanctuary city policy allows for the city to work with the federal government if someone is convicted on 170 serious crimes.”
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“We lost 200,000 black New Yorkers in two decades. About 9% of the city's population of black New Yorkers.”
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“From 2010 to 2019, nearly 20% of black children and teenagers had to leave this city.”
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“New York City is the most expensive city in the United States of America.”
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“I am going head to head with Andrew Cuomo, a former governor whose super PAC is funded in large part by the same billionaires who put Donald…”
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“As a State assembly member, I won the first of its kind fare free bus pilot.”
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“We made one bus route free in every borough of New York City, and we secured $15 million to do so.”
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“The largest increase of riders came from New Yorkers making $28,000 a year or less.”
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“11% of the new riders [on the free bus routes] were previously driving a car, taking a taxi.”
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“The cost of doing all of this [making bus routes free] is about $700 million a year.”
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“The state budget is about $252 billion a year.”
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“We are at 7.25% [corporate tax rate]. They're [New Jersey] at 11.5%.”
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“I have supported congestion pricing because I believed it would reduce congestion, increase bus speeds, raise revenue for the MTA, and…”
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“The two of us won about $12 million in new bus service.”
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“Since it's been implemented, foot traffic has increased in the central business district.”
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“Noise complaints are down by a significant amount because you have reduced congestion.”
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“Small businesses employ a majority of all New Yorkers who are working in the private sector.”
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“We put forward a small business proposal where we would cut fines and fees for those businesses by 50% across the board.”
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“The city's budget is about $113 billion a year.”
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“We need to actually follow the example of Pennsylvania where they took an eight-week permitting process and made it just a couple days.”
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“I'm gonna freeze the rent for more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants, because that's the mayor's power.”
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“The last mayor did that three times. This mayor raised the rent 9%. He wants to raise it again up to 8%.”
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“The landlords of those same units just gave Cuomo $2.5 million.”
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“We need to make the city affordable.”
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“I was gonna freeze the rent.”
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“I was gonna deliver universal childcare.”
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“The last mayoral primary, 26% of Democrats voted.”
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“It took us months to knock 150,000 doors in this city.”
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“Last week we knocked that in seven days alone.”
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“This is the Trump administration looking to arrest enough migrants that they can say they fulfilled their campaign promise of building the…”
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“We have New Yorkers who have been arrested and detained today.”
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“Few days ago marked three months since a Palestinian New Yorker named Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in his apartment building lobby.”
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“We have another New York City public high school student named Dylan, who was snatched at a regular check in at Federal Plaza.”
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“Calling the National Guard is typically something a governor requests of the president.”
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“Our police force should not be assisting ICE in what they are conducting.”
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“Donald Trump wants to run a country in a manner that is more befitting of an authoritarian state.”
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“We have a mayor who has wanted to fear monger around sanctuary city policy.”
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“The number one [concern of New Yorkers] is affordability. After that, it's childcare, it's elder care, it's discrimination.”
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“This is a city that is losing hundreds of thousands of people in the last few years alone because they can't afford it.”
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“We have 34,000 volunteers.”
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