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Zohran Mamdani: “We spend about $10 billion within [the Department of…”

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

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What I mean by that is that the Department of Education is the agency that city Government spends the most on of any agency by a lot of. We spend about $10 billion within [the Department of Education] on contracts. Now, some of those contracts are ones that are individualized per school district. There is an immense amount of money that I think could be saved were we to standardize a lot of this. (24:39–24:44)

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