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Zohran Mamdani: “Social Security, if you go back and see how that was treated…”

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

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published July 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 17:42

I've partnered with Ground News to get you the discount that is available only for a limited time. That's ground news.com stewart or scan the QR code on screen. Thank you to Ground News for sponsoring this episode. Social Security, if you go back and see how that was treated when it was first introduced, right, it was described as the Sovietization of America. Medicare. And now it is thought of as one of the most American things that we could ever be talking about. (17:42–17:52)

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“One in four people are living in poverty [in New York City].”
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“Childcare is the second highest expense for families in New York City. We're talking about $20,000 a year for a single child.”
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“In this city you have to make $334,000 to be able to afford that kind of expense [childcare].”
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“Our city has lost 200,000 black New Yorkers over the past few decades.”
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“From 2010 to 2019, the population of black children and teenagers declined by 19%.”
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“We have been able to deliver the lowest number of murders and shootings in recorded history.”
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“We’ve been able to pave 175,000 potholes, put the city on a path to universal childcare, win more than $60 million for tenants whose…”
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“We've been able to pave 175,000 potholes.”
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“Put the city on a path to universal childcare.”
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“Win more than $60 million for tenants whose landlords made negligence into a business model.”
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“This city is many things all at once. It's both the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world.”
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“Day eight of our administration, we secure an agreement with the governor for $1.2 billion that unlocks free childcare for 2 year olds for…”
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“Day eight of our administration, we secure an agreement with the governor for $1.2 billion that unlocks free childcare for 2 year olds for…”
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“Our dream is that this will extend not only to the 2000 2-year-olds this year or the 12,000 next year, but every single 2-year-old by the…”
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“If we truly want to reckon with one in four New Yorkers being in poverty, we have to also ask ourselves about if it's important to change…”
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“One in four New Yorkers being in poverty.”
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“Medicare. And now it is thought of as one of the most American things that we could ever be talking about.”
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“You have to make $334,000 to be able to afford that kind of expense [childcare].”
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“That's the measure across the five boroughs, that, that's how much your family would have to earn to be able to absorb that kind of a hit.”
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“The Independent Rent Guidelines board established a two year rent freeze for over 2 million New Yorkers who live in rent stabilized housing.”
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“The Independent Rent Guidelines board established a two year rent freeze for over 2 million New Yorkers who live in rent stabilized housing.”
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“I did not expect was $12 billion worth of difficulty.”
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“I did not expect was $12 billion worth of difficulty.”
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“This was in many ways purely of City Hall's doing. It was mismanagement and under budgeting and it had been building for years.”
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“We're not going to have to inherit a $12 billion fiscal deficit, no matter how tough it is.”
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“We had a deferred payment that was spread out over about 22 years or so.”
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“It was going to go up about maybe $6 billion a year, and then the next year is going to be $0.”
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“We are not only funding our pension systems at a much higher level than many of the other municipalities that are being cited.”
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“We are not only funding our pension systems at a much higher level than many of the other municipalities that are being cited.”
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“It's not a question of if we're going to get to 100% funded, it's just a question of when in the 2000-30s we would do so.”
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“There are a lot of people in Albany who do agree with the vision of raising taxes a little bit more on the wealthiest.”
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“Chief Savings Officers found about $1.7 billion in savings across city government.”
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“Since the early 1960s, New York City started to make decisions that would render it unable to build the level of housing it needed.”
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“We have to do the long term work of being able to build 200,000 new affordable homes over 10 years.”
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“We have to both build more housing than we've ever seen in our city in a long time and do it while strengthening the tenant protections.”
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“We've created that Office of Community Safety.”
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“We need to develop a new model here.”
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“Investing in gun violence interrupters in the crisis management system.”
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“Anybody who the ICC is called for, I think we should be honoring.”
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