Zohran Mamdani: “In the middle of February, I had to come forward and present…”

“You know, when we faced this $12 billion fiscal deficit, we were able, through the use of reserves and savings, we were able to start chipping away at it. And then on In the middle of February, I had to come forward and present the first version of our budget. They call it a preliminary budget. And in that version, I said that we had two paths of how we could get the remaining deficit down to zero. I said there was a path of last resort.” (34:31–34:37)

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