Zohran Mamdani: “They were more than three times higher than the pre Covid 10…”

“According to the Comptroller's estimates, The gaps the Adams administration left behind were not only more than double what had been publicly projected just months earlier, They were more than three times higher than the pre Covid 10 year average and exceeded even the deficits we faced during the Great Recession. A major driver of that crisis was under budgeting for core city services, rental assistance, shelter costs, due process cases. Across six major areas alone, more than $7.5 billion in expected costs had simply not been accounted for.” (06:18–06:28)

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