A day after Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered city agencies to cut from their own budgets, Errol Louis spoke with two experts — Ronnie Lowenstein, the director of the New York City Independent Budget Office, and Andrew Rein, the president of the Citizens Budget Commission — to analyze the budget and if the city is saving enough for the next economic downturn.

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