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A GOP lawmaker has proposed a new “Mamdani Act” to limit federal funding for New York while Zohran Mamdani is mayor.
The legislation, which will be introduced by Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), is called the Moving American Money Distant from Anti-National Interests Act, or the “MAMDANI Act” for short.
The short bill, just two pages long, states “notwithstanding any other provision of law, during any period in which Zohran Mamdani is mayor of New York, New York… any unobligated Federal funds available” for the city “are hereby rescinded” and “no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for any purpose to New York, New York.”
Carter, who is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, has said taxpayer dollars from his state “should not be wasted on programs that will bankrupt the financial capital of the world.”
“If New Yorkers want communism, we should let them have their wish and not artificially prop them up with our successful capitalist system,” Carter added.
“Any New Yorker with common sense is welcome to move to the great, FREE state of Georgia.”
The bill is expected to be introduced on Friday.
Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race on Tuesday, defeating former state governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
Mamdani was widely predicted to win the race.
He has promised a radical socialist program, including criminal-justice reform, rent controls and increased taxes for white neighborhoods, and is also rumored to want to turn New York into a national “sanctuary” for gender-realignment surgery.
As Fox News reports, the MAMDANI Act is unlikely to pass, but its introduction shows how focused the Republican Party is on Mamdani’s victory. Republican leaders in the House are attempting to position him as the new leader of the Democratic Party.
Republican insiders have indicated that the GOP will “seek to tie vulnerable Democrats across the country to Mamdani and his far-left platforms.”
