This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, massive amounts of American firepower sit in the waters around Iran.

This flotilla, as Donald Trump calls it, awaits the President's order to strike the Islamic Republic.

I'll examine what such attacks might accomplish and what the pitfalls would be.

Then, President Trump has said that tariff is the most beautiful word,

but now his signature program has suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Supreme Court.

What happens now? I'll talk to the experts.

Also, Facebook co-founder and META CEO Mark Zuckerberg went to court this week

as a witness in a trial centered on claims that social media platforms

like his are detrimental to kids. I will talk to Jonathan Haidt about what is at stake.

But first, here's my take. Zoran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable.

A mandate for a city we can afford.

Last week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable.

New York has been fiscally profligate for so long that the headline number, $127 billion,

produces little shock. But for perspective, these are similar to the annual expenditures

of a mid-sized nation, with all the expenses a country requires, like Greece or Thailand,

devoted to governing one city.

New York City's budget has ballooned in recent years.

Michael Bloomberg's last budget, adopted for fiscal year 2014, totaled about $70 billion.

So in little more than a decade, the budget has nearly doubled growing faster than inflation

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