{"id":76220,"date":"2025-12-20T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76220\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:45:07","slug":"were-going-to-critique-the-current-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76220\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018we\u2019re going to critique the current programs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) \u2014 In his first TV interview since New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-appoints-154445939.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sherif Soliman as the next budget director;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sherif Soliman as the next budget director<\/a>, Soliman responded to comments from outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, saying he\u2019s leaving the \u201cnext administration with a sound foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThere is a gap to close. We are clear about the challenges,\u201d Soliman told PIX11\u2019s Dan Mannarino. When asked about how to close that gap, Soliman said there are conversations about raising taxes to achieve the affordability agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Soliman brings experience from his current role as senior vice chancellor for budget and finance and chief financial officer at the City University of New York. He\u2019s also worked in Bill de Blasio and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/radical-left-hijacked-democratic-party-125859895.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Adams\u2019 administrations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Adams\u2019 administrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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 2025 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 CITY (PIX11) \u2014 In his first TV interview since New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3204,81,9,56,63,65,64,36421,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-76220","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-eric-adams","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-sherif-soliman","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76220","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=76220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}