It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

On today's show, we'll look at Mayor Mamdani's first annual budget proposal.

Budget, of course, is policy, right?

How much will New York City or anyplace spend on

education, housing, law enforcement, child care, and more, and who will pay how much in taxes to fund those

spending and policy goals? In Mamdani's case, you probably already know some of the prelude to this.

He campaigned on fostering more

equality in the city through universal child care, free city buses, new housing programs, and more.

Also, on taxing the wealthiest corporations and people with million dollar a year personal incomes,

several percentage points more to help pay for those things, and he inherited a multi-billion

dollar budget deficit for the coming fiscal year that by law he will have to close before

adding anything new by raising revenue, dipping into the city's reserves, or finding savings

in existing programs. So what is the new mayor prioritized? Is it much different from past mayors? And why is

he suddenly talking about the possibility of a property tax increase? That's not the tax the rich

proposal from his campaign. That's coming up later this hour. And we'll continue our annual

series today with the directors of the five documentaries nominated

for the Oscar for Best Feature Length Documentary.

Nothing wrong with talking about the great actors and other great artists connected to the

entertainment films that are nominated.

But we've carved out a lane here on this show for a number of years now

as a public radio show to talk about and hear clips from the nominated documentaries. We have

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