{"id":27953,"date":"2025-11-04T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27953\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:37:10","slug":"greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-on-new-yorkers-moving-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27953\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Abbott Threatens \u2018100% Tariff\u2019 On New Yorkers Moving to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would “impose a 100 percent tariff” on New Yorkers moving to Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,\u201d the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Abbott\u2019s post came on the eve of New York City\u2019s mayoral election, in which democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tariffs are taxes on goods, not people, and state governors are not permitted to levy taxes on imports from other states, let alone people. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has recognized that the constitutional right to travel includes the right to enter and leave another state freely and to become a permanent resident of another state.<\/p>\n

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But Abbott’s comment appears to tap into concerns that a wave of New Yorkers who don\u2019t support Mamdani could flee to Texas if he is elected the mayor of the nation\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

Mamdani triumphed over former New York Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June. He faces Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mamdani has promised to raise taxes on the richest New Yorkers and use the money to make city buses free and provide free, universal child care. He has also promised to freeze rent for people living in about 1 million rent-regulated apartments.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has called Mamdani a \u201ccommunist\u201d and suggested federal funding<\/a> cuts to the city if he is elected.<\/p>\n

Mamdani would be the city\u2019s first Muslim and Indian American mayor if elected.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Updates to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would “impose a 100 percent tariff” on New Yorkers moving to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,6636,9,11,10,1777,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-27953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-greg-abbott","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953","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=27953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}