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Zohran Mamdani: “Right now, I'll tell you, you want to open a barbershop in…”

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

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Zohran Mamdani Discusses Mayoral Campaign and Policies on The Breakfast Club

Published | Video Starts at 16:39

But for that restaurant, those are the kinds of things that can add up. And so we're going to cut that in half. And we're also going to make it easier to open them because Right now, I'll tell you, you want to open a barbershop in New York City, you got to go to seven different agencies, fill out 24 forms, and then attend 12 activities. That does not make it easy to open a barbershop. We need to actually follow the example of Pennsylvania where they took an eight week permitting process and made it just a couple days. (16:39–16:48)

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