Zohran Mamdani: “We raised $4 billion and finally sent that money to New York…”

“We said we had to to fully fund the schools that he had starved of, of funding for so many years. What we ended up doing is overcoming his objections. We raised $4 billion and finally sent that money to New York City public schools. I've seen firsthand in the Legislature, the Assembly, the Senate, there's an appetite for this kind of a tax plan to pay for working class.” (02:45–02:50)

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