He had \u201cone\u201d job.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law in 10 months since taking office \u2014 leaving critics to wonder if the millennial mayor is more interested in social media stardom than his daily government duties.<\/p>\n
Mamdani, who turned 35 on Sunday, signed a law allowing year-round outdoor dining<\/a> on city sidewalks in August \u2014 and that\u2019s the only City Council-passed bill he\u2019s put his seal on so far while nearly 100 languish on his desk since January.<\/p>\n Every other bill under the social media-savvy socialist\u2019s administration has become law in a process known as \u201creturned unsigned,\u201d which automatically enacts a bill if the City Council passes it and it sits unsigned without a veto on the mayor\u2019s desk for four weeks.<\/p>\n New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signing his year-round outdoor dining law on Aug. 31, 2026. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n Hizzoner, meanwhile, regularly appears in numerous cleverly crafted TikTok videos per day \u2014 prompting insiders to lament about where his priorities lie.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mayor and his team are obsessed with becoming a content farm, often delaying or can-kicking boring governmental meetings so the mayor and his staff can hold pitch sessions for social media videos,\u201d one source who often works with City Hall\u00a0told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mayor gets pitched comedy sketches more than Lorne Michaels,\u201d the source added. \u201cThere are lots of laughs, and there is very little work.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s signature count is shockingly far behind his last three predecessors \u2014 former Mayor Eric Adams had signed 30 laws at the same point in his term, Bill de Blasio had signed 47, and Mike Bloomberg had signed 28.<\/p>\n Although the \u201creturned unsigned\u201d route that\u2019s dominated Mamdani\u2019s term eventually nets laws, it\u2019s far from normal \u2014 as mayors typically use it to protest legislation they don\u2019t agree with, or to avoid being associated with an effort they know they won\u2019t beat with a veto.<\/p>\n Mamdani in a makeshift outdoor restaurant set up outside City Hall in August when he signed his dining bill. X\/@NYCMayor<\/p>\n But Mamdani doesn\u2019t seem to have gotten that memo \u2014 as numerous bills he\u2019s left unsigned play perfectly into his progressive agenda, including one overwhelmingly passed by the council that required ICE-barring sanctuary rules be posted<\/a> at schools and city-owned buildings.<\/p>\n It was introduced in February \u2014 a softball, two months into his term \u2014 but when the time came for him to sign the bill for socialist ally Alexa Aviles<\/a> in June, the law was disregarded and left to languish for four weeks before automatically going into effect.<\/p>\n Mamdani vowing to \u201ctax the rich\u201d in April, in one of his flashy social media videos. Mayor Mamdani\/X<\/p>\n That\u2019s the playbook dozens of bills enacted during Mamdani\u2019s administration have followed \u2014 all while he continues to personally appear in his social media clips, including two sketches Monday, two on Saturday and two on Thursday.<\/p>\n Some of those social media hits have made huge headlines, even as valuable legislation sat waiting on his desk for his stamp of approval.<\/p>\n