"The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won. "It's gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a Communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money you're sending there," Trump told CBS's . Mamdani responded to Trump's threat of extortion-vote for my preferred candidate or else-by pointing out that said federal funding was not Trump's to give. "This funding is not something that Donald Trump is giving us here in New York City," Mamdani said. "This is something that we are, in fact, owed in New York.""
"It was not the first time Trump treated federal funds as his personal property that he could use to extort political opponents or reward political allies. Trump has approved disaster aid for red states and denied it to blue states. In the midst of the government-shutdown fight with Democrats, he is refusing to disburse rainy-day funds for food stamps, saying (falsely) that the lapse will hurt "largely Democrats." The Trump administration has cut funding for projects in states with Democratic majorities. It is withholding federal funding from colleges and universities that do not submit to ideological control by the federal government over whom they hire, what they teach, and what sort of students they admit, and rewarding those that comply."
President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from New York if a left-leaning mayoral candidate won and framed such withholding as a response to a "Communist" mayor. Zohran Mamdani countered that federal funding is owed to New York, not a presidential gift. The administration has shown patterns of allocating disaster aid to Republican states while denying it to Democratic states, delaying food-stamp funds during shutdown disputes, cutting projects in Democratic-majority states, and conditioning higher-education funding on ideological compliance. The administration has issued selective pardons to January 6 participants, convicted Republicans, and wealthy donors.
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