Zohran Mamdani: “The proposal is actually $60 million. It's a pilot program…”

“And ultimately my proposal, it won't end up in that billions of dollars late, although it will be in the New York Post because they'll write about me every single day for sure. And the reason it won't is because The proposal is actually $60 million. It's a pilot program for one [public grocery] store in each borough. And the reason I bring up the costing of it is it actually costs less than half the of what the city's already set to spend on subsidizing corporate supermarkets.” (13:17–13:23)

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