Mamdani commits $31.7M recurring annual library funding; reframes 0.5% pledge as multi-year

Mamdani announced $31.7M in recurring annual library funding Fri May 15, ending the "budget dance" and bringing FY27 library total to $527M ≈ 0.4% of city budget. His campaign promise was 0.5%. New framing: "We will achieve that goal by the time I'm done being mayor" — explicit multi-year reframe, signaling partial-kept on the Library benchmark promise.

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• brokenCorporate tax hike ($1.75B/year)
• brokenDouble DCWP budget to $135M
• brokenIncrease Human Rights Commission funding to $21M

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