“New Yorkers Are Paying The Price" - Mamdani's 2% Wealth Tax IGNITES High-Stakes NYC Showdown
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The PBD Podcast panel reacts to NYC Mayor Mamdani meeting with Minneapolis leaders on immigration policy while proposing new tax hikes to close a growing deficit. The debate covers city finances, leadership decisions, public services, and the political direction of major U.S. cities.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go to somebody else that some people wonder whether he loves America or not. |
| 0:04.0 | And that's Mamdani. |
| 0:04.9 | Mamdani here comes out. |
| 0:07.2 | He meets with the Minneapolis mayor in New York City to discuss protecting immigrants. |
| 0:15.5 | Okay. |
| 0:15.9 | All right. |
| 0:16.8 | Allegedly, that's the discussion. |
| 0:18.3 | Rob, do you want to show this clip? |
| 0:20.8 | We're looking to determine some of the next steps here. |
| 0:25.6 | We want to make sure that what happened in Minneapolis |
| 0:28.5 | does not happen in other cities and states throughout the country. |
| 0:32.5 | We want to make sure that our immigrant neighbors are protected. |
| 0:35.0 | And mayors work together, together you know we're all operating |
| 0:38.2 | in the reality business and the reality is what just happened with operation is well-spoken say |
| 0:43.3 | what you want to say is not okay is well-spoken how do you prevent that how do you prevent that |
| 0:49.0 | well a lot of what it is is local governments working directly with their constituencies. |
| 0:55.6 | I mean, what you saw at Minneapolis is tens of thousands of people standing up in a |
| 1:01.1 | federal government. |
| 1:02.6 | Did he say woke government? |
| 1:03.9 | No, no, no, no, no, constituency, local government, not woke. |
| 1:06.9 | Okay, Adam, thoughts on this. |
| 1:08.7 | The meeting between Mamdani and them, by the way, while this is going on, Mamdani also came out asking for an additional 2%. I don't know if you saw that. Wait, are you saying he's asking for more money? Additional. Wait, more money? Vinny, what's wrong with that? He needs more money because he just came out and I know you're probably not happy |
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