{"id":137696,"date":"2026-02-18T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137696\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:40:09","slug":"live-updates-on-zohran-mamdani-governors-race-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137696\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates on Zohran Mamdani, Governor\u2019s race, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a massive property tax hike to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-to-unveil-122b-budget-fueled-by-proposed-nyc-property-tax-hike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fund his blockbuster $127B budget<\/a>, while Gov. Kathy Hochul has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/17\/us-news\/bruce-blakeman-rips-ny-gov-kathy-hochul-for-1-5b-zohran-mamdani-budget-bailout\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ponied up $1.5B in taxpayer cash<\/a> to help bail out New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Post\u2019s live updates for the latest politics news in New York from Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral term in NYC to state legislation in Albany and more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a massive property tax hike to fund his blockbuster $127B budget,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4241,301,426,5309,57,9,17566,18571,56,63,65,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-137696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-albany","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-kathy-hochul","11":"tag-live-blogs","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-state-assembly","15":"tag-new-york-state-senate","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-us-news","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696","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=137696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}