{"id":604967,"date":"2026-02-21T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:03:19","slug":"citizens-budget-commission-president-weighs-in-on-nycs-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/604967\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Budget Commission President weighs in on NYC\u2019s budget deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Andrew Rein, President of the Citizens Budget Commission, sits down with PIX11 to discuss Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s preliminary budget proposal for New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When it comes to shrinking the city\u2019s budget deficit, Rein says the most important thing for City Hall to do is restructure the city\u2019s spending habits entirely, and he says a \u201cone-shot\u201d fix will never keep New York City on track financially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rein also agrees with the Mayor\u2019s opponents that tax hikes of any kind are not the right move, but he agrees with the Mayor in focusing on inefficiencies in the city government\u2019s spending.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video player for the full interview.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 Andrew Rein, President of the Citizens Budget Commission, sits down with PIX11 to discuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":604968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,234547,13236,260243,49867,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,16796,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-604967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-andrew-rein","tag-budget-deficit","tag-budget-proposal","tag-citizens-budget-commission","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-spending-habits","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116106638647473355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604967","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=604967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}