# NYC Mayor on Childcare, Free Buses and Campaign Promises

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:45
- Published: 2026-11-09
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises) Talk about action and, uh, Democrats just like Republicans, it's easy to make promises when you're campaigning.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=6) Um, you have a number that you are still working on, have not come to fruition, $30 an hour for minimum wage, free buses for everybody.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=13) That's the one that everyone when I said I was gonna talk to you, they're like, "Ask him about my free bus."

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=17) Um, arresting Bibi Netanyahu, uh, disbanding parts of the NYPD.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=20) Those things haven't happened. So do you run up against the reality of actually governing a city like this?

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=26) What's your caution to Democrats who now head to Capitol Hill with some pretty sweeping promises?

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=30) Well, I would say is now is the time to fulfill those promises because in the same 10 months that we've been in office- But not easy to do, as you found out.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=36) It's, it's difficult, but that doesn't mean you shirk away from it.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=39) And in these same 10 months, what we have done is deliver on universal childcare.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=43) We have done so- But wait a minute, for 2K.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=45) Mm-hmm. But not infant to five. I mean, that- I- ... that's a huge promise.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=50) We've done five, we've done four, we've done three, and now we're doing two for the first time.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=54) In part. There are slots. Mm-hmm. There's 2,000 slots.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=56) I mean, that's improving, but- Yeah, after getting $1.2 billion.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=60) Next year it's 12,000, and the governor has said herself, "We're gonna expand this program."

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=63) And that to me is you have 10 months in a four-year term, you gotta move as quick as the city does.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=68) And when you get $1.2 billion on your eighth day in office, you use that to actually make what was $20,000 a year into something that's now free for thousands of New Yorkers.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=79) And you do these things while also doing the basics.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=81) You pave 220,000 potholes in this city. You deliver the largest labor enforcement action in New York City history, $130 million from DoorDash back to 260,000 New Yorkers.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=92) And then you keep working on everything else because a promise isn't something to intimidate you.

[1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=97) A promise is something that you should meet.

[1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=99) Some promises you do day one, some of them day 365, some of them year three.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AVSUL9WamDOl/en/nyc-mayor-on-childcare-free-buses-and-campaign-promises?t=103) You keep going