Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council began to butt heads Wednesday over how to address the city’s multi-billion dollar shortfall after the Council released its response to the mayor’s preliminary budget proposal.
On Wednesday, Speaker Julie Menin released the Council’s preliminary budget response, which she said would find $6 billion to close the city’s budget gap, doing so with new found savings without dipping into the city’s rainy day fund, making cuts to services, or implementing tax increases.
Mamdani immediately slammed the proposal, calling it “unrealistic.”…