Budget Bollocks | 07-01-26

On this Wednesday Tunnel to Towers edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid unpacks Mayor Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Council Finance Chair Linda Lee, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget Sherif Soliman and members of the City Council yesterday announcing a handshake agreement on a balanced $125.8 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget. In other news of the day, President Trump said there was progress today as U.S. and Iranian officials resumed talks in Qatar - via mediators - telling reporters "the denuclearization of Iran is moving along well," and the Supreme Court yesterday struck down President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States, while ruling in favor of the President in upholding state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Abraham Hamra, Brian Kilmeade, Frank Morano, Peter King & Scott Kaplan join Sid on this hump day T2T installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning.