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Zohran Mamdani: “We have shown in this budget is an actual accounting of the…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Unveils FY27 Preliminary Budget With Potential Property Tax Hike

Published | Video Starts at 45:39

What we need to do is reckon with the structural nature of this and put ourselves back on the kind of footing that allows us to advance an agenda. Police questions. I mean, the projected overtime which you promised to slash. So what We have shown in this budget is an actual accounting of the cost that the city is paying for typically, what we've seen is a lot of these costs are obscured in the budget only to then be paid out later. So we have put that forward in this budget and we are also working towards the reduction of it, as we have seen already through the police commissioner's actions. (45:39–45:51)

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Asserts that the budget now includes an actual accounting of costs that were previously obscured.

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