Zohran Mamdani: “We find the $700 million a year it would take to do this…”

“It's not one that we simply command, like Cuomo typically did, an unfunded mandate. It's that We find the $700 million a year it would take to do this [make buses free]. And we do that through, in part the city budget, in larger part the state budget.” (11:21–11:25)

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