00:00But let's be honest, you've just told me that Mamdani campaigned on the promise of affordability.
00:06But the big question is, do we know what he will do now that he's in office?
00:11And what are some of the challenges that Mamdani is going to face to actually push his agenda through?
00:18Because you can say a lot of stuff, but it's very difficult to do a lot of stuff, Ja Gruti.
00:24Yes, indeed. And, you know, Mamdani has alluded to this.
00:28You know, he said that he campaigned in poetry, but he's going to run in prose.
00:35So the idea is that he talked big ideas, but now it's when he when he starts to govern, it's going to be on the practicality of prose.
00:43And this is really the challenge that he faces, how to put his promises into practice.
00:48His the cost of some of his very ambitious agenda, you know, free universal child care, fast and free buses, reduced cost of housing, rent freezes.
00:59All of this is going to have a price tag of around seven billion U.S. dollars, according to some reports.
01:04Where is that money going to come from? You know, he's going to have to deal with a more moderate governor of New York, Kathy Hochul.
01:12She's not on the same political wing as he is, an avowed democratic socialist.
01:18So on the left, how does he talk to people on the center and even on the right?
01:22And, you know, there might be federal budget cuts coming in.
01:26There might be, you know, Kathy Hochul might be talking about tightening the purse strings for the state.
01:32So how is he going to get those seven that approximately seven billion dollars to push his agenda through?
01:38And, you know, his the lack of his lack of executive experience is something that his opponents talked a lot about on the campaign trail.
01:46And that is something that is going to be tested when he comes into office as well.
01:51And he's going to have to deal with a very mercurial president, Republican president, Donald Trump.
01:56In that meeting, their first meeting in the Oval Office, it was actually a very jovial meeting.
02:00People were expecting sort of verbal fireworks to continue.
02:04They both said some, you know, some things about each other.
02:06But in that meeting, Donald Trump was very complimentary, saying that, you know, Republicans are going to be surprised by this guy.
02:12They both want for their own different reasons for New York to be successful because, you know,
02:19Donald Trump has a long history and a connection with New York.
02:22So he obviously wants to be careful.
02:24He doesn't want to bash the new mayor too hard and make things too difficult for him,
02:27where any failures in New York can be then attributed and blamed on him.
02:31So there's lots of different things at play here, lots of challenges that Mamdani is going to have to face.
02:37But really, the big one is where is that money going to come from to put his promises into practice?
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