{"id":19111,"date":"2026-02-18T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-asks-new-york-state-to-raise-taxes-on-ultra-wealthy-to-address-city-budget-deficit-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:16","slug":"mamdani-asks-new-york-state-to-raise-taxes-on-ultra-wealthy-to-address-city-budget-deficit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-asks-new-york-state-to-raise-taxes-on-ultra-wealthy-to-address-city-budget-deficit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani asks New York State to raise taxes on &#8216;ultra-wealthy&#8217; to address city budget deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) asked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the &ldquo;ultra-wealthy,&rdquo; citing a &#8220;significant chasm&#8221; in the city&#8217;s $5.4 billion deficit. During a preliminary budget proposal announcement on Tuesday, Mamdani laid out two different &ldquo;paths&rdquo; the city could take to address the deficit concerns&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5742911-hochul-mamdani-budget-ultra-wealthy-tax\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) asked Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the &ldquo;ultra-wealthy,&rdquo; citing a &#8220;significant chasm&#8221; in the city&#8217;s $5.4 billion deficit. During a preliminary budget proposal announcement on Tuesday, Mamdani laid out two different &ldquo;paths&rdquo; the city could take to address the deficit concerns&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}