Zohran Mamdani: “We have brought that deficit down to $5.4 billion.”

“It is definitely a source of anxiety for any of us who are here in city government because this is the largest fiscal deficit that our city has seen since the Great Recession. And frankly, it dwarfs even that. We have brought that deficit down to $5.4 billion. And it is now the subject of conversations we're having with our partners at the state level in Albany.” (05:31–05:35)

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