Zohran Mamdani: “We are inheriting an administration of fiscal mismanagement…”

“… did I not know about it, but a lot of New Yorkers were not made clear as to what the state of this city's fiscal health was. And that's because We are inheriting an administration of fiscal mismanagement from the prior admin as well as former Governor Cuomo's decades long attack on the city's coffers. And together what those things have done is deliver this bill of health that shows about a $12 billion deficit over two fiscal years. How do you solve it?” (06:34–06:46)

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