Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio is the mayor of New York City. He has been mayor since 2014. De Blasio received a bachelor’s degree in metropolitan studies from New York University and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in September.
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"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. ……
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"We’ve lifted hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty in the last five years."
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"The graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years"
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"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."
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On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to…
Says "220,000 New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obama’s executive action been affirmed. So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are…