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The MeidasTouch Podcast

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani On Making Government Work for People

11 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent political events are affecting the Republican party?

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Päinvastoin tarjoamme nyt 30% alennuksen Northlightin kato- ja pöytävalaisimista. Ja kaiken lisäksi lampuista miinus 20 prosentia. We calculated the prices of ski resorts. Buy now the price list for the winter. For example, Helsinki-Tampere starting at 4,90 euros. And Oulu-Helsinki starting at 14,90 euros. The campaign is in force until the 18th of January. VR. On a joint journey.

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73.252 - 93.927 Ben Meiselas

Republican lawmakers, senators, and Congress members alike have been inundating the White House and specifically Donald Trump's chief of staff with calls yelling at her and yelling at this regime. Republican lawmakers are yelling at them for focusing on running Venezuela.

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93.907 - 123.913 Ben Meiselas

And the polling from YouGov and any other legitimate polling agency is showing that overwhelmingly 60, 70, 80% of American people, based on how these questions are asked, do not want the United States running Venezuela. Should the United States prioritize Venezuela over America? It's like only 7% of people support that. And I guess in that 7% is Donald Trump and his cabinet who keep

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talking about we're running Venezuela. It's our country now. Delcy Rodriguez does what I tell her to do. This is my territory. We're the predator, Donald Trump says. And Republican lawmakers are like, hello, this is an election year. This is 2026 and right now you keep talking about invading Greenland and you keep talking about running Venezuela and how Colombia and Cuba and Mexico are next.

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The American people hate this and the Republicans are getting massive backlash. Here's the latest from Reuters that has a great scoop on this. After the president announced on Saturday that US would run Venezuela, Republican lawmakers inundated the White House with calls, insisting the only country Trump should be running right now is the United States. Stop with the Venezuela stuff.

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The article goes on to talk about how Susie Wiles has been basically trying to convince Donald Trump that keep on talking about Venezuela is not a winning issue. The article goes on to say top White House aides are openly frustrated that Trump and senior officials continue to talk about foreign affairs and taking over different countries and that they're not talking about affordability.

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It goes on to talk about in multiple White House meetings focused on the economy since November, Donald Trump always pivots to talk about his personal grievances and then he just puts out a bunch of lies about the economy and people are just fed up about this. It goes on to say, Republicans on Capitol Hill have privately questioned, why is Trump not more focused on domestic priorities at all?

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He needs to stay focused on things that voters care about, not renaming buildings and other things that are not in the kitchen table category. They then talked about that Donald Trump did this retreat at the Kennedy Center, which Trump vandalized and called the Trump Kennedy Center. And Republicans have referred to it as

Chapter 2: How is Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivering for New Yorkers?

432.386 - 456.199 Ben Meiselas

You layer on top of that healthcare costs, 22 to 25,000. Childcare, healthcare alone, 50, $60,000. Who can afford that? Who can afford that? So Mayor Mamdani, talk to us about what you and Governor Hochul did. Now, Governor Hochul is often viewed more, I mean, this is how she's talked about. She's viewed more as kind of a center left,

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456.179 - 472.399 Ben Meiselas

You're viewed obviously more progressive, democratic, socialist, coming together though for the common good. This is what people wanna see. So while it seems like Trump and the federal government are focused on $100 billion in subsidies for oil companies and unlawful invasions of Venezuela.

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472.419 - 492.308 Ben Meiselas

If you look at New York, it's actually delivering for the people and right away in New York City, a big announcement from the Mayor Zoran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul in this joint press conference. We started seeing posts from Governor Hochul, universal childcare is coming to New York. That's refreshing to hear right there from the governor of New York.

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And then she posted it again, universal childcare is coming, universal childcare. The big announcement today, moving New York City closer to Zoran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City's vision for universal childcare. So it just seems that in All this bad news, the deluge of it that seems to be just kind of flooding the news cycle.

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515.304 - 531.782 Ben Meiselas

You are keeping your word and you are doing things for the people of New York City and joining forces with the governor. And, you know, it's an interesting thing, pulling people from different sides of the of the left and progressives joining forces for something that benefits the people. Tell us about it, Mayor.

531.762 - 551.61 Zoran Mamdani

Well, it's truly lovely to be back on here with you. And what I would say is that it is, as you've said, today's an incredible win for working people. We're talking about a $1.2 billion commitment from the state of New York to the city of New York to make universal childcare a reality. This is money that will mean that we can fix childcare for three-year-olds across the city.

551.891 - 567.066 Zoran Mamdani

And we can start to deliver childcare for every two-year-old across the city. And after housing, childcare is the number one crisis facing working families in the city. It's the number one reason that they're leaving the city. And that's because the average cost of childcare is $22,500 a year.

567.407 - 578.138 Zoran Mamdani

And so what today's commitment and today's partnership between the governor and myself shows is that working families are not going to have to make the choice any longer between the city they love and the family they want to actually raise.

578.287 - 602.623 Ben Meiselas

I alluded to this in my intro that you and Governor Hochul are perceived as very different kind of Democrats, but you're delivering this together and joining forces on this together. And so can you speak to that also? Because I know there are lots of people who like to kind of push the divisions, but there are ways to work together for the greater good of the people.

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