{"id":184147,"date":"2026-04-03T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184147\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:37:21","slug":"statement-from-mayor-zohran-kwame-mamdani-on-city-councils-preliminary-budget-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184147\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement From Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on City Council\u2019s Preliminary Budget Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani released the following statement in response to the City Council\u2019s\u00a0preliminary budget\u00a0response:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Julie Menin\u2019s preliminary budget proposal would result in slashing billions of dollars from agency budgets, which would force the\u00a0City\u00a0to cut services. Double counting previously\u00a0identified\u00a0savings, overestimating revenues, and exaggerating debt service savings does nothing to close a deficit.<\/p>\n<p>This $6 billion proposal asks Albany for just one action \u2013 class size mandate relief. It refuses to address the deeper structural imbalance between the\u00a0City\u00a0and the State, or to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and most profitable corporations. It effectively ensures this structural deficit will continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Any proposal that claims we can close this gap without significant new revenue is unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"&#9;text-align: center;&#10;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani released the following statement in response to the City Council\u2019s\u00a0preliminary budget\u00a0response:\u00a0 Speaker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-184147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184147","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=184147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}