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Zohran Mamdani, NYC council boss team up to squeeze more dough out of Albany — putting Hochul on hot seat again

Nypost · · 1045 words · By Vaughn Golden; Hannah Fierick; Craig McCarthy; David Propper
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15 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined forces with City Council Speaker Julie Menin to try to squeeze more dough out of Albany”
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Multiple independent sources (Politico, and other web search results) confirm that Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Speaker Julie Menin jointly called for more aid from Albany to address the city's budget gap.
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web search NEUTRAL — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin are urging the State to approve a budget that will help fund the multi-billion budget gap that the city is facing — while supporting …
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mamdani-state-help-new…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin are set to announce an agreement Tuesday to extend the city’s executive budget deadline while jointly calling for mor…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/mamdani-menin-to-an…
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“Mamdani and Menin called to peel back a tax credit as the city struggles to fill a projected multibillion dollar budget gap”
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Web search results confirm that Mamdani and Menin are urging the state to help fund a multi-billion budget gap and specifically mention the PTET as part of their proposal to address this.
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web search NEUTRAL — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin are urging the State to approve a budget that will help fund the multi-billion budget gap that the city is facing — while supporting …
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mamdani-state-help-new…
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web search NEUTRAL — Speaker Menin: Sure. I'm happy to address the PTET. No, the PTET has been in our proposal since April 1. What we did in our budget proposal is we offered a range of options. Obviously, we strongly bel…
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/transcript--m…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin announce an agreement to extend the city's executive budget deadline until mid-May.Check out more E...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PkepsphUS0
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“she has already appeased the democratic socialist mayor and the “tax the rich” crowd with a new proposed levy on pricey second homes in the city”
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Reuters and other news sources confirm that Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a new tax on second homes worth over $5 million, which was backed by Mayor Mamdani.
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web search NEUTRAL — Kathy Hochul, who has opposed raising some taxes, favored a “pied-à-terre” luxury tax because it largely targets the ultrawealthy who primarily live outside New York City. Ms. Hochul repeatedly expres…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/nyregion/hochul-pied-terr…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - New York State Governor Kathy Hochul proposed on Wednesday a new tax on second homes worth over $5 million that was backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
https://www.aol.com/articles/mamdani-hochul-propose-tax-york…
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web search NEUTRAL — Governor Hochul has framed the proposal as both a matter of fairness and a pragmatic response to the state’s evolving fiscal landscape. “If you can afford a multimillion-dollar second home in New York…
https://tjvnews.com/local/new-york/hochul-proposes-new-tax-o…
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“state lawmakers are still working to iron out a deal for its own spending plan nearly a month after the budget deadline”
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Multiple sources report that the New York state budget was nearly a month late and that lawmakers were still negotiating the spending plan.
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web search NEUTRAL — New York’s roughly $260 billion state budget was already a month late by the time Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders started talking about money last week.
https://www.wxxinews.org/new-york-public-news-network/2026-0…
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web search NEUTRAL — State lawmakers are close to agreeing on a new state spending plan that would include a deal to raise taxes on the wealthy, and raise the minimum wage. They failed to seal a pact Monday night, but the…
https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nys-lawmakers-back…
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web search NEUTRAL — Under New York City’s charter, the mayor’s executive budget is due on May 1, but with state budget negotiations in Albany tied up, Menin said it was “prudent” to delay the city’s spending package. Bot…
https://blackchronicle.com/northeast/new-york/mamdani-menin-…
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“Mamdani and Menin also clamored for the state to cut down the Pass-Through Entity Tax (PTET) credit (PTET) from 100% to 75%”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that Mamdani and Menin proposed reducing the PTET credit from 100% to 75%.
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web search NEUTRAL — Zohran Mamdani, 34, has been elected the 111th mayor of New York City. The left-wing state assemblyman has pledged to reshape the global financial capital by making the city more affordable for its wo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
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web search NEUTRAL — Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of the City of New York on January 1st, 2026. Prior to becoming Mayor, he represented the 36th New York State Assembly District and its neighborhoods of Astoria, D…
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 8, 2026 · This week marks Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 100th day in office and a new Marist poll reveals how New Yorkers think he is doing. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/100-days-mayor-new-…
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“Mamdani and Menin confirmed they agreed to extend the deadline for Mamdani to propose his first ever executive budget from Friday to mid-May”
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ABC7 New York and Politico both report that the executive budget deadline was extended from Friday to mid-May (specifically May 12).
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web search NEUTRAL — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to push back the deadline for the mayor's executive budget. The two elected officials on Tuesday also called on ...
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/04/28/mamdani-men…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Council speaker announced that the executive budget deadline has been extended from Friday to May 12.
https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-extends-executive-budg…
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web search NEUTRAL — NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin are set to announce an agreement Tuesday to extend the city's executive budget deadline while jointly calling ...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/mamdani-menin-to-an…
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“called on Hochul to reduce the PTET credit for two years in hopes of raising about $1 billion in revenue”
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Multiple sources confirm the proposal to reduce the PTET credit for two years to raise approximately $1 billion in revenue.
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web search NEUTRAL — Menin, a more moderate Democrat than Mamdani, said she believes the proposed reduction — from 100 percent of a pass-through-entity’s income to 75 percent of it — should only be applied for two years. …
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/in-unusual-alliance…
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web search NEUTRAL — Their proposal would reduce the city’s PTET tax credit, currently a full rebate, to raise about $1 billion annually, while a separate state plan from Gov.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-state-funding-tax-proposal
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web search NEUTRAL — “The PTET credit is a tax cut for the rich.” Mamdani and Menin estimate limiting the credit from its current 100% level to 75% would yield nearly $1 billion. That could help close the city’s $5.4 bill…
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2026/05/04/868212…
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“the city sends billions of dollars to Albany each year and sends more than it receives in return”
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The provided web search results for this specific claim returned generic news homepages (Google News, CNN, NBC) and did not provide specific data regarding the net flow of funds between NYC and Albany.
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web search NEUTRAL — Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
https://www.nbcnews.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
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web search NEUTRAL — Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
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“The two have been at odds over how to close a $5.4 billion hole”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny that Mamdani and Menin were at odds over a $5.4 billion hole; in fact, other claims suggest they are collaborating on the PTET solution.
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“The credit program was created in response to the Trump administration capping SALT deductions during his first term”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific origin of the PTET credit program in relation to the Trump administration's SALT caps.
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“proposing a pied-a-terre tax on second Big Apple homes worth more than $5 million that would generate about $500 million”
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“She has also committed to sending $1.5 billion in direct aid and another $1.2 billion for child care, as well as school funds and the pied-a-terre surcharge”
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“Menin included the PTET proposal in the City Council’s budget response to Mamdani’s $127 billion preliminary spending plan”
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“95% of PTET payments are made by filers earning over $1 million”
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“On April 1st, the Council released its plan identifying nearly $6 billion in savings”
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