{"id":138557,"date":"2025-08-12T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:48:12","slug":"zohran-mamdani-faces-huge-budget-gap-and-will-have-to-scale-back-his-utopian-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138557\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani faces huge budget gap and will have to scale back his utopian dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani\u2019s dreamy, big-spending plans for New York City \u2014 free buses, free babysitting and $100 billion for free apartments \u2014 are about to smash into the hard reality of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/22\/opinion\/to-plug-new-yorks-massive-budget-gaps-gov-hochul-should-focus-on-growing-the-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">state\u2019s massive $36 billion budget gap.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoever is mayor come Jan. 1 will have a hard enough time meeting payroll, much less expanding the scope of government spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York has been on a spree lately, much of it funded by once-in-a-lifetime federal bonanza grants tied to the pandemic. But those giveaway days are gone, and Washington\u2019s far more likely to reduce what it sends this way, so both city and state must now face some serious belt-tightening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blaming President Donald Trump \u2014 as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/11\/us-news\/socialist-mamdani-launches-trump-bashing-tour-across-5-nyc-boroughs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mamdani is already doing <\/a>with his \u201cFive Boroughs Against Trump\u201d tour \u2014 can\u2019t change the stony truth that New York spends money like it\u2019ll never run out. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heck, in the face of federal tightening of eligibility for Medicaid and food stamps, Gov. Kathy Hochul is scrambling to ensure no illegal immigrant gets cut off, even if New York taxpayers must cover the whole bill. <\/p>\n<p>It all means less state and federal flowing to Gotham. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>Which would leave a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/15\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-sticks-to-socialist-guns-tax-the-rich-plan-during-highly-anticipated-sitdown-with-nyc-big-business-leaders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Mamdani looking for soak-the-rich tax hikes<\/a> even larger than what he now suggests to fund his big dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The great Maggie Thatcher famously noted: \u201cThe problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people\u2019s money,\u201d but New York City is on track to run out even before the socialist takes over.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani\u2019s dreamy, big-spending plans for New York City \u2014 free buses, free babysitting and $100 billion for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13237,4691,15669,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,4573,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-138557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-budget","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-government-spending","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-state-budget","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013517569826674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}