{"id":136890,"date":"2026-02-18T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136890\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:10:16","slug":"city-councilmember-lee-reacts-to-mayors-preliminary-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136890\/","title":{"rendered":"City Councilmember Lee reacts to mayor\u2019s preliminary budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani released <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/zohran-mamdani-kathy-hochul-tax-hike-on-wealthy-property-taxes-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his preliminary budget<\/a> for the upcoming fiscal year Tuesday afternoon, hoping to address the city\u2019s multi-billion-dollar budget gap; which he says he inherited from the Adams administration.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes a day after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $1.5 billion state investment over two years to help stabilize the city\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilmember Linda Lee joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Tuesday to react to Mamdani\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year Tuesday afternoon, hoping to address the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,33367,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,380,3111,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-136890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-chris-welch","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-ny1-interviews","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-the-rush-hour","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136890","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=136890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}