Zohran Mamdani: “It's 300% more than what we saw in pre-Covid years.”

“We are not talking about the kind of budget dance that has become endemic in any legislative and executive process. We're talking about a budget gap that eclipses that of the Great Recession. We're talking about one that I think It's 300% more than what we saw in pre-Covid years. This is the kind of gap that we can only end up with if the prior administration was intentionally pushing so much of its actual costs off the books.” (34:35–34:42)

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