{"id":136384,"date":"2026-02-17T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:25:07","slug":"live-updates-latest-news-on-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136384\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates, latest news on NYC mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow live updates on New York City politics as Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-to-unveil-122b-budget-fueled-by-proposed-nyc-property-tax-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">record $122 billion budget proposal<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The eye-popping amount \u2014 that one insider called \u201cinsanity\u201d \u2014 is up more than $10 billion from the current year, and is fueled by a proposed property tax hike on New Yorkers, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani will unveil the preliminary budget at 1:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news, analysis and more from our local politics reporters with up-to-the-minute updates:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow live updates on New York City politics as Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7739,14927,5309,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-136384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-city-budget","10":"tag-live-blogs","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}