Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the bonus segment of, for all you, uh, podcast listeners

there. Remember, I'll be away for the next, uh, two weeks. Curtis Slee, what will be filling in

for me. That will be, uh, great to hear Curtis again. Uh, a lot's going to, a lot of stuff's

going to happen, uh, in two weeks, you know, January 1st is inauguration day here in New York.

Mom, Donnie takes office.

Everybody not, you know, just on edge, not knowing what to think, what could happen when

he takes office.

Well, a couple of things.

First of all, there's obviously, you know, and it's worse than we thought.

There's a big budget shortfall about to hit New York, New York City.

The budget is a mess.

New York City and New York State, too, but especially New York City, overspends like crazy.

The budget, if anybody rational were running New City, could cut the budget in half.

We just waste tremendous amounts of money, spend more than we should, and that's why we're

taxing people like crazy.

But it looks like there's going to be a $2 billion shortfall.

The first year for Mom Dani is going to get hit with being $2 billion short in his budget.

And by the end of his term, that could go to $13 billion.

And these numbers are coming from the controller, who's Brad Lander, who's Mom Dani's friend.

But it's going to be a horrible budget situation, $2 billion short.

So it's going to be very, very challenging.

Now, you know, he's talking about free this, free that.

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