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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: Update on Budget Negotiations from NY DSA Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani
Description: We look at the battle over New York State’s $227 billion annual state budget. Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state legislature are facing an April 1 deadline to complete the budget. On Saturday, hundreds of New Yorkers with the Invest in Our New York coalition marched from Columbus Circle to “Billionaire’s Row” on 5th Avenue to call for higher taxes on NY’s wealthiest residents.
We speak with Socialist NY Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani about budget negotiations at the State Capitol right now — the meetings, the discussions, the bargaining, the pressure from well-heeled lobbyists as well as from people-powered movement.