Mayor Mamdani, welcome back to meet the press.

Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be back.

Well, it's wonderful to have you here to talk about your first 100 days in office.

We really appreciate the opportunity, and there is a lot to cover.

So let's dive right in.

Let's start big picture.

You came into office.

You made sweeping promises on the campaign trail.

I'll name a few, freezing the rent,

free and fast buses, universal child care. Here we are 100 days in to your tenure as mayor.

Are you still confident you can deliver on all of your promises that you made to New Yorkers?

Yes, I am. And I'm confident of that because of what we've seen over this hundred days. On day eight, we announced a $1.2 billion agreement with Governor Kathy Hokel to put our city on the pathway to universal child care. We are not only providing free child care for every three-year-old in this city, we're now doing it for two-year-olds as well. By the end of our first term,

we will see every single two-year-old receiving free child care across the five boroughs of New York

City. And we're going to talk about child care and a number of your other policies. You're also

facing a $5.4 billion budget shortfall. You are required by law to balance the budget. Are you confident you can

accomplish all of the promises that you made in your first term, in one term? So I've always said that we

would accomplish all of these promises by the time that I'm done being the mayor. I'm fully

confident of doing exactly that. And as you said, we inherited the largest fiscal crisis

that the city has seen since the Great Recession. Frankly, this dwarfs even that. When we first

came into office, we were looking at $12 billion. And thanks to the work that we did, the savings,

the allocations of our reserves, the commitment from the governor, we were able to bring that

down to $5.4 billion.

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