Zohran Mamdani: “It feels as if we have reached a new day in the movement for…”

“Senator Sanders, I remember a few years ago you drilled. We had a hearing. That's right. I'm on committee. Right. What is different right now? That wasn't the case then. I can tell you that It feels as if we have reached a new day in the movement for workers across the city where more and more New Yorkers are united in the belief that an honest day's work should be allowed to make that person afford the city that they call home. And there is an exhaustion amongst New Yorkers at the sheer contrast between these workers who cannot afford to live in this city and CEOs who are making $96 million a year on the backs of those same workers.” (39:55–40:11)

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