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In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reacts to President Trump ordering the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, which the governor calls “performative.”



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Kicking off the first primary debate, which was hosted by NBC 4 New York, Mamdani’s first answer laid out his pitch to enact progressive policies by freezing rent-stabilized apartment costs, making city buses free and enacting universal child care — all while framing his platform in diametric opposition to Cuomo, at that point the longtime polling front-runner. “I will pay for this by taxing the 1%, the billionaires and the profitable corporations that Mr. Cuomo cares more about than working-class New Yorkers,” Mamdani said. When asked how he’d turn his policy proposals into enacted reality, Mamdani attacked Cuomo again, arguing that in the state Legislature, he successfully “overcame” the objections of “a governor then who didn’t want to raise taxes on billionaires and corporations. That was then-Gov. 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