Zohran Mamdani: “Mayor Adams's administration misled the public about the…”

“Is that was that I get behind the scenes. Was. Was something else going on there? Was the public misled on those messages? Mayor Adams's administration misled the public about the scale of the fiscal deficit. 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.” (34:14–34:23)

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