Zohran Mamdani: “It actually costs less than half of what the city's already…”

“And the reason it won't is because the proposal is actually $60 million. It's a pilot program for one store in each borough. And the reason I bring up the costing of it is It actually costs less than half of what the city's already set to spend on subsidizing corporate supermarkets. There's this program called City Fresh where the city will give subsidies. And they don't even require these supermarkets to accept SNAP or WIC to engage in collective bargaining to actually have cheaper groceries.” (13:22–13:32)

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