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Zohran Mamdani: “Most people didn't even know that there's no public funding…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Zohran Mamdani on his first priorities as NYC mayor (Full video interview)

Published | Video Starts at 03:11

And I think that's both in the way that it's funded and it's the way that it's also spoken about. And we wanted New Yorkers to be at the heart of that because Most people didn't even know that there's no public funding for transitions. And so we've been asking people to donate to a transition. The first thing we have to educate them about is what is a transition? What is this funding used for? (03:11–03:15)

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Asserts that there is no public funding for political transitions.

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