{"id":185127,"date":"2026-04-04T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:24:07","slug":"councilmember-lee-looks-at-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185127\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember Lee looks at budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Council members have been criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani on social media over how to close the city\u2019s budget gap.<\/p>\n<p>It all comes after the mayor claimed the council\u2019s proposed budget would cut billions of dollars from city agencies.<\/p>\n<p>But City Council Speaker Julie Menin says the spending cuts would not harm city services.<\/p>\n<p>The final budget agreement isn\u2019t due until July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Linda Lee, the chair of the council\u2019s Finance Committee, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Friday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>She represents neighborhoods in eastern Queens, including Fresh Meadows, Bayside, Jamaica and Holis.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council members have been criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani on social media over how to close the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-185127","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-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185127","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=185127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}