Zohran Mamdani: “I'm running against a man who found $959 million for Elon…”

“These are real costs, real, significant amounts of money. I would argue a few things. The first, these are the kinds of expenditures that do happen in city and state politics. Right. I'm running against a man who found $959 million for Elon Musk in tax credits. One year in Albany, that's more money than it takes to make the bus free. We're talking about a municipal budget of 116 billion, state budget of more than 252 billion.” (35:56–36:02)

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