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.

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.

That's the one that everyone when I said I was gonna talk to you, they're like, "Ask him about my free bus."

Um, arresting Bibi Netanyahu, uh, disbanding parts of the NYPD.

Those things haven't happened. So do you run up against the reality of actually governing a city like this?

What's your caution to Democrats who now head to Capitol Hill with some pretty sweeping promises?

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.

It's, it's difficult, but that doesn't mean you shirk away from it.

And in these same 10 months, what we have done is deliver on universal childcare.

We have done so- But wait a minute, for 2K.

Mm-hmm. But not infant to five. I mean, that- I- ... that's a huge promise.

We've done five, we've done four, we've done three, and now we're doing two for the first time.

In part. There are slots. Mm-hmm. There's 2,000 slots.

I mean, that's improving, but- Yeah, after getting $1.2 billion.

Next year it's 12,000, and the governor has said herself, "We're gonna expand this program."

And that to me is you have 10 months in a four-year term, you gotta move as quick as the city does.

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.

And you do these things while also doing the basics.

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.

And then you keep working on everything else because a promise isn't something to intimidate you.

A promise is something that you should meet.

Some promises you do day one, some of them day 365, some of them year three.

You keep going