Trump threatens funding for NYC if Mamdani is elected

President Donald Trump mentioned that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has “to do the fitting factor” if he’s elected mayor of New York Metropolis, or he may see federal funding dry up.

“To illustrate this, if he does get in, I’ll be president and he’ll must do the fitting factor, or they are not getting any cash,” Trump informed Fox Information’ Maria Bartiromo throughout an interview that aired Sunday.

“He is acquired to do the fitting factor,” Trump mentioned.

It isn’t the primary time that Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding for native politicians, notably these in blue states, whose positions he opposes.

He is beforehand threatened to strip federal funding from California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s insurance policies in direction of transgender athletes collaborating in ladies’s sports activities.

Whereas Trump took explicit goal at Mamdani, the 33-year-old who defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo within the first spherical of the town’s Democratic mayoral major final week, he additionally made a wider funding risk to all New York Metropolis mayoral candidates.

“I can let you know this, whoever’s mayor of New York goes to must behave themselves, or the federal authorities is coming down very robust on them financially,” Trump informed Bartiromo.

Trump has repeatedly referred to as Mamdani — who’s a Democratic socialist — a communist, as he did throughout the interview on Fox Information’ Sunday Morning Futures.

Mamdani has rejected that label.

“I’m not and I’ve already needed to begin to get used to the truth that the president will speak about how I look, how I sound, the place I am from, who I’m,” Mamdani informed NBC Information’ Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”