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Even as he focused his campaign on affordability in one of the world’s most expensive cities, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Still had to struggle with Donald Trump.
Mamdani said before his supporters election Day New Yorkers are facing the “dual crisis” of the “authoritarian” Trump regime on the one hand and the rising cost of living on the other.
For months, the President has Mamdani’s citizenship repeatedly questionedFalsely labeled him a communist, threatened to arrest and deport him, suggested that his administration would “run” New York and let troops “clean up” the city, and threatened to pull Billions of dollars in federal funding From a city with more than 8 million inhabitants.
On Monday, Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo said Trump would “send the National Guard to New York” if Mamdani wins.
Following Mamdani’s decisive victory in Trump’s hometown, what might the president actually do, and what pressure points is he likely to hit?
“Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn up the volume,” Mamdani said in impassioned remarks to supporters Tuesday night. “If anyone can show a country betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it’s the city that birthed him.”
What is Trump planning?
Before Election Day, in a post on his Truth social platform, Trump wrote that if Mamdani is elected, “It is highly unlikely that I will contribute federal funds other than the minimum amount required for my beloved first home, because as a Communist, I have zero chance of success or even survival in this once great city!”
In an interview with CBS 60 minutes “It would be hard for me as president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, you’re wasting the money you’re sending there,” Trump said in the program broadcast Sunday.
But it is Congress – not the White House – that decides how federal funds are allocated to each state. The Trump administration is fighting several high-profile legal battles over its efforts to unilaterally block federal spending approved by Congress.
Without Congressional support, Trump’s efforts to block congressionally approved funding amount to an unconstitutional “seizure,” according to a flood of lawsuits against the administration.
The Trump administration – under the guise of a government shutdown – is Billions of dollars in federal funding for New York have already been threatenedWhich also includes funding for important transportation projects.
How much does New York City get in federal funding?
New York City’s proposed 2026 budget is dependent on $7.4 billion in federal funding, representing 6.4 percent of total spending, according to the office of New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
The city’s 2025 budget relied on about $9.7 billion in federal funds, or 8.3 percent of total spending, including $1.1 billion in COVID-19 pandemic funds. The 2026 budget is slashed by nearly $2 billion due to the expiration of pandemic-era funding.
But most federal funding is used to support education as well as housing and social service agencies.
The city’s largest federal award comes from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which funds public assistance grants and other social services. That money supports an average of 146,189 family assistance recipients in 2024, and about 44 percent of the planned costs for family shelter operations at the Department of Homeless Services in 2025.
Will Trump send troops?
The president has dispatched federal immigration officers and state National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities across the country, alleging that city and state officials have failed to cooperate with his mass deportation agenda.
Democratic officials who sued the president to block the increase have argued that the president’s threats Designed to sow unrest to justify their occupation of American cities.
Trump hasn’t explicitly threatened to put boots on the ground in New York, although the city is One of the flashpoints of his anti-immigration agendawith widespread arrests In the immigration court and on the streets of Manhattan.
Mamdani clashed with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan during a visit to the state Capitol earlier this year, days after federal agents Green card holder Mahmood Khalil arrested,
Following his election night victory, Mamdani said he would not be “intimidated” by Trump’s potential threats to deploy US troops to New York.
“Their threats are inevitable,” Mamdani told the ABC. good morning america Wednesday. “This has nothing to do with safety, it has to do with intimidation.”
If it were security, Mamdani said, then Trump would be “threatening to deploy the National Guard to the top 10 crime states, eight of which are all Republican-led.”
“But because of that party, he really won’t do it,” he said.
Mamdani was born in Uganda and moved to the United States at the age of 7. He grew up in Queens – the same borough where the president was born, a few miles from Mamdani’s Jackson Heights neighborhood.
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, run by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said in remarks Tuesday night. “Listen to me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any one of us, you have to go through all of us.”
But Mamdani has repeatedly said he would work with the president on issues related to affordability — pointing to Trump’s own campaign promises to lower the cost of living in the country.
“I have said repeatedly that I will work together to deliver on his campaign promises of affordable groceries or a lower cost of living,” he told NY1 on Wednesday. But for too long, New Yorkers have seen a mayor working with the president at the expense of those New Yorkers,” Mamdani said. “I want to make it clear that if the President wants to come to the people of this city, I will be there for him every step of the way.”