{"id":230307,"date":"2026-05-13T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:13:17","slug":"how-mayor-mamdani-says-nyc-closed-its-budget-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230307\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mayor Mamdani says NYC closed its budget gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s \u201cMorning People,\u201d Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter\u00a0break down Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s executive budget proposal and how state lawmakers helped close the city\u2019s funding gap. They also discuss the city\u2019s new bus lane in Queens aimed at speeding up trips to and from LaGuardia Airport.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SHOW<\/p>\n<p>Wake up with Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter to hear the latest on the news and topics New Yorkers are talking about. Watch or listen every Monday through Friday for daily discussions, as well as interviews with notable people who may or may not like waking up early.<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO LISTEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/morning-people\/id1878479101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">APPLE PODCASTS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5VztOnuMEiZIGl7bOsByXR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/morning-people\/PC:1001114025?part=ug-desktop&amp;corr=170319850848145225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PANDORA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLJa4BTbrF33nnPAPsKv8rIm1X8XG-Ng3S&amp;si=SKr3yQIeHmhNeNqB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s \u201cMorning People,\u201d Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter\u00a0break down Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s executive budget proposal and how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9369,25,66058,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-230307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-podcasts","tag-app-top-stories","tag-morning-people","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230307","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=230307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}