Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to slap New Yorkers with a \u201c100% tariff\u201d if they flee to the Lone Star State if Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,\u201d the Republican governor tweeted on the eve of the mayoral election.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t immediately clear why he wanted to punish new arrivals, or if such a tariff would even be possible.<\/p>\n
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to slap New Yorkers with a \u201c100% tariff\u201d if they flee to the Lone Star State if Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,\u201d the Republican governor tweeted.<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s \u201cTax the rich\u201d policy has long raised fears of a max exodus of New York City\u2019s wealthiest residents \u2014 with a poll this week suggesting more than 750,000 would flee.<\/p>\n
Abbott joined the chorus of GOPers tearing into the far-left candidate ahead of the election \u2014 as they warned against voting for him.<\/p>\n
President Trump, for his part, threw his support behind Mamdani\u2019s rival, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, just hours before New Yorkers took to polling booths.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s \u201cTax the rich\u201d policy has long raised fears of a max exodus of New York City\u2019s wealthiest residents, according to reports. Getty Images<\/p>\n
People vote at a polling location at the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan on November 4, 2025. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
He also threatened to withhold federal funds from the Big Apple if Mamdani is victorious.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to slap New Yorkers with a \u201c100% tariff\u201d if they flee to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[910,7714,7715,19992,27,29,28,734,11259],"class_list":["post-35011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-business","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","tag-tariffs","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}