{"id":136938,"date":"2026-02-18T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136938\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:22:10","slug":"city-hall-officials-on-mamdanis-preliminary-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136938\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall officials on Mamdani&#8217;s preliminary budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani laid out a preliminary budget proposal on Tuesday with two options for addressing the city&#8217;s $5.4 billion shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>The first is one of his major campaign promises: to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and corporations. But without Gov. Kathy Hochul on board, Mamdani also floated a Plan B &#8211; raising property taxes and dipping into the city&#8217;s reserves.<\/p>\n<p>First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan and Budget Director Sherif Soliman joined NY1&#8217;s Ayana Harry on &#8220;Inside City Hall&#8221; Tuesday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani laid out a preliminary budget proposal on Tuesday with two options for addressing the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-136938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-inside-city-hall","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-inside-city-hall-segments","11":"tag-inside-city-hall-shows","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136938","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=136938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}