{"id":140773,"date":"2026-02-21T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140773\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:52:13","slug":"mayor-zohran-mamdani-pushes-for-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140773\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes for tax increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Welcome to PIX on Politics Daily with Dan Mannarino \u2014 where we break down the day\u2019s political news, top headlines, and the issues that matter most to you through thoughtful, in-depth conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Join us every day at 1:00 p.m. on PIX11+ as we speak with newsmakers, lawmakers, and key figures shaping policies that directly impact our local communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, Henry is joined by New York City Council Member and Chair of the Committee on Finance, Linda Lee, to discuss the city\u2019s budget and Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying a tax increase is necessary to close a $5.4 billion fiscal gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video player for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Welcome to PIX on Politics Daily with Dan Mannarino \u2014 where we break down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3204,37534,9,1057,56,63,65,64,3206,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-140773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-dan-mannarino","9":"tag-linda-lee","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city-council","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-political-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140773","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=140773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}