{"id":555992,"date":"2026-01-31T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:36:21","slug":"fulop-rejects-tax-hike-proposal-to-address-new-york-citys-budget-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555992\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulop rejects tax hike proposal to address New York City\u2019s budget gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 New CEO and President of Partnership for New York City and former Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop sits down with PIX11 News to talk about transitioning into his new role at the business advocacy group, made up of hundreds of New York City CEOs, and the city\u2019s budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fulop argues that the Mayor\u2019s proposal to raise taxes on businesses and the rich is not the answer to shrinking the budget gap, and that he believes the $12 billion figure is inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fulop also dismisses current Jersey City Mayor James Solomon\u2019s claim that Fulop\u2019s administration left the city unprepared to respond to the snowstorm, saying all administrations blame the previous one for any shortcomings, including his own.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 New CEO and President of Partnership for New York City and former Jersey City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":555993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,243330,32521,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,145234,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-555992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jersey-city-mayor","10":"tag-jersey-city","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-steven-fulop","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115989039201654380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}