New Republic - In a deranged Truth Social rant, Trump threatened to cut off literally all federal money to New York City, should Mamdani prevail.
“Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises,” Trump raged. “He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?”
Trump’s threat is open extortion. He is flatly declaring that if New York voters exercise their political aspirations as nominally free and equal citizens by selecting leaders that personally displease him, he will use the federal governmaent to inflict suffering on them however he can. In fiscal year 2026, the city is expected to receive billions of dollars in federal money. Much of that goes to social services, so slashing it would be dramatically harmful.
But that aside, what’s noteworthy here is that Trump’s threat is backfiring. It’s giving Mamdani a convenient way not just to turn Trump into a foil but also to position himself as fighting to defend his city and its people from Trump’s effort to subjugate and extort them.
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