Mamdani Vows to Fight Trump Administration over Funding Threats

Democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised that if he is elected the city’s next mayor, he will fight President Donald Trump and his administration in response to threats to block federal funding from going to the city if Mamdani wins.

Mamdani’s comments came after Trump said, during an interview with CBS News 60 minutesthat it would be “difficult” for him to give a lot of money to New York. Trump added that “if you have a communist running New York, all you do is waste the money you send there. »

Fox News reported that on Monday, Mamdani participated in a march “across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall” and that he “vowed to fight back against the Trump administration.” Mamdani also pledged to combat the threats of “an affordability crisis that has pushed one in four New Yorkers into poverty.”

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Mamdani walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall at sunrise in a dramatic protest on the eve of Election Day. Flanked by supporters, local officials and Attorney General Letitia James. Mamdani vowed to fight back against the Trump administration.

“What we have seen in cities and states across the country is the need, not only to use the bully pulpit but also the courts, to ensure that every dollar owed to a municipality is a dollar that is paid,” Mamdani said. “And I will take every day, after this election, to rally my city government, my city hall, to make sure that it is prepared not only for the threats of Donald Trump, but also for the threats of an affordability crisis that has pushed one in four New Yorkers into poverty.

In an article published Monday on Truth Social, Trump weighed in on the city’s mayoral race, saying that if Mamdani won, it would be “highly unlikely” that he would “contribute any federal funds, other than the minimum required.”

“If communist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the election for mayor of New York, it is very unlikely that I will contribute federal funds, other than the minimum required, for my beloved first home, because, as a communist, this once great city has no chance of success, or even survival! » Trump said. “The situation can only get worse with a communist at the helm, and I don’t want to throw money after money as president.”