Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) plans to introduce a bill aimed at blocking federal funds from New York City so long as Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is mayor.
The bill, the Moving American Money Distant from Anti-National Interests Act, or the “MAMDANI Act,” says, “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Zohran Mamdani is mayor of New York, New York” that “any unobligated Federal funds available” for the city “are hereby rescinded.” It adds that “no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for any purpose to New York, New York.”
Carter told Fox News, “If New Yorkers want communism, we should let them have their wish and not artificially prop them up with our successful capitalist system.” He explained that “[a]ny New Yorker with common sense is welcome to move to the great, FREE state of Georgia.”
Ahead of New York City’s mayoral election, President Trump threatened to pull funding if Mamdani claimed the victory.
“If 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, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!” Trump wrote. “It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
Mamdani’s election success marked a historic moment as he became New York City’s first Muslim mayor and the first candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America to win the position.
