{"id":190157,"date":"2026-04-08T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190157\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:29:07","slug":"mayor-zohran-mamdani-nyc-council-speaker-julie-menin-clash-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190157\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani, NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin clash over budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tensions are simmering between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin over the city budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mamdani and Menin have tangled over competing budget proposals.<\/p>\n

The mayor insists he needs Albany<\/a> to approve taxing the rich and corporations<\/a> in order to close his budget gap and has\u00a0threatened to raise property taxes<\/a> if they don’t. Menin says no new taxes are needed.<\/p>\n

“Hard no” to property tax raise<\/p>\n

The moderate council speaker took her fight with the mayor to the National Action Network Convention on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We have said a hard no to raising property taxes 9.5%. That is unacceptable,” she said.<\/p>\n

Menin put her opposition to Mamdani’s proposed property tax hike in stark racial terms.<\/p>\n

“If we were to do that, we would be hurting Black communities across our city. We’d also be hurting small businesses,” she said. “Five thousand small businesses, many of which are Black-owned, have closed last year \u2013 5,000. Twenty-five thousand jobs have been lost, mainly in the Black community.”<\/p>\n

She said her plan focuses on efficiencies and reforms. For example, she said the city can save $860 million by simply not budgeting unspent money for positions that have remained unfilled.<\/p>\n

Mamdani’s response<\/p>\n

The mayor, who campaigned on a promise to tax the rich, said her savings would mean service cuts.<\/p>\n

“The things that will never be in question for me are the cutting of essential services to New Yorkers,” Mamdani said. “We will never allow a New Yorker to have to go to sleep wondering whether those kinds of services will be in doubt the next morning.”<\/p>\n

When asked about Menin’s “hard no” to raising property taxes, Mamdani said, “When we put forward our preliminary budget on February 17th, I said then what I’ll say now, which is that it is a path of last resort, one that we will spend every single day looking to avoid as we pursue a path of working with Albany to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers, the most profitable corporations<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Mamdani approval ratings<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a new poll shows that just under half of New Yorkers approve of the job Mamdani is doing<\/a> as he approaches the 100-day mark.<\/p>\n

The Marist poll found that 48% of New Yorkers approve, 30% disapprove, and 23% are unsure of the job he’s doing.<\/p>\n

During former Mayor Eric Adams’ first 100 days, 61% approved of his job performance.<\/p>\n

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