Zohran Mamdani: “I'm not going to be cutting funding for sanitation.”

“I think about sanitation, for many, it's the difference between a city that they want to live in and a city that they don't feel is taken care of. And one thing that I'm going to ensure is that in my administration, I'm not going to be cutting funding for sanitation. I'm just struck by the disparity. I have to go back again to, you know, the gentleman who's homeless on this car that we're sitting on.” (08:08–08:12)

This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.