President Donald Trump renewed his threats against New York City on Tuesday, suggesting he would withhold funds and deploy federal troops \u2014 just as in Chicago and Washington, D.C. \u2014 if Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to ruin one of our great cities, because we\u2019ll make that great,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will clean up the crime in about 30 days. It took 12 days to do Washington, D.C. So New York is bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump threatened to withhold funding and send federal troops to New York if Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor
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\u201cI\u2019ll fight like hell to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul said in response to Trump’s comments
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Hochul held a funding announcement in Mamdani\u2019s Assembly district, where they appeared together for the first time since she endorsed him last month<\/p>\n
The Trump administration has already tried to withhold funding from New York, including $18 billion for transit projects. But his latest comments were tied directly to Mamdani; he called the democratic socialist a communist who hates police and Jewish people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was always very generous with New York, even when you had opposition there. But I was always very generous,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I wouldn\u2019t be generous to a communist, a guy that\u2019s going to take the money and throw it out the window. Because you\u2019re talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. And we\u2019re not going to let somebody get into office, and squander the taxpayer money from this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
At an event in Brooklyn on Tuesday where he was endorsed by Black clergy leaders, Mamdani said Trump can be held to account through the courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump has called me many things,\u201d Mamdani told reporters. \u201cWe will continue to receive funding from the federal government, and it\u2019s not because of President Trump\u2019s generosity. It\u2019s because it is the law. And just because he utters something, does not make it the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul also reacted to Trump\u2019s remarks after a funding announcement in Mamdani\u2019s Queens Assembly district, where they appeared together for the first time since she endorsed him last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll fight like hell to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen,\u201d she told reporters following the event.<\/p>\n
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at an unrelated event where he announced an affordable housing action plan, suggested mainstream Democrats like Hochul are feeling pressure from the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are formidable, and they are frightening to Democrats in a primary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, who focused on subway crime during a morning news conference in Midtown and later opened a new campaign office in Floral Park in Eastern Queens, downplayed Trump\u2019s remarks as more of the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not focused on that,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got 21 days left to get out the vote. That\u2019s what\u2019s going to determine who the next mayor is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump renewed his threats against New York City on Tuesday, suggesting he would withhold funds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[107,109,114,25,3284,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-2682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-2025-nyc-mayors-race","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-local-elections","11":"tag-app-top-stories","12":"tag-bobby-cuza","13":"tag-brooklyn","14":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","15":"tag-brooklyn-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}