A Republican lawmaker is seeking to halt all federal funding to New York City following the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Representative Buddy Carter of Georgia announced the Moving American Money Distant from Anti-National Interests Act, known as the “MAMDANI Act,” which would strip the city of any unobligated federal funds and prevent any future federal allocations as long as Mamdani remains mayor, the New York Post reports. Carter stated his rationale was that if New Yorkers wanted a socialist leader, the rest of the country should not financially support them, arguing that, “If New Yorkers want communism, we should let them have their wish and not artificially prop them up with our successful capitalist system.”
According to The Post, “the two-page bill text stated that ‘notwithstanding any other provision of law, during any period in which Zohran Mamdani is mayor of New York, New York’ that ‘any unobligated Federal funds available” for the city “are hereby rescinded’ and that ‘no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for any purpose to New York, New York.’”
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“Carter, who is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, said taxpayer dollars from his state ‘should not be wasted on programs that will bankrupt the financial capital of the world,’” The Post reports.
President Donald Trump echoed similar sentiments, threatening to withhold federal support from New York City and warning that the city has no chance of success under a communist mayor.
Mamdani, 34, recently won the mayoral race by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. His victory was anticipated by analysts. Carter’s bill, though unlikely to pass in the House, is intended to make a symbolic point about Mamdani being positioned as the new leader of the Democratic Party.
