U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a gathering with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Overseas Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner (not pictured) and Rwanda’s Overseas Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe (not pictured) within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025.
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President Donald Trump stated that Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has “to do the precise factor” if he’s elected mayor of New York Metropolis, or he might see federal funding dry up.
“For instance this, if he does get in, I’ll be president and he’ll should do the precise factor, or they are not getting any cash,” Trump informed Fox Information’ Maria Bartiromo throughout an interview that aired Sunday.
“He is obtained to do the precise factor,” Trump stated.
It isn’t the primary time that Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding for native politicians, notably these in blue states, whose positions he opposes.
He is beforehand threatened to strip federal funding from California over Gov. Gavin Newsom’s insurance policies in direction of transgender athletes taking part in ladies’s sports activities.
Whereas Trump took specific goal at Mamdani, the 33-year-old who defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo within the first spherical of the town’s Democratic mayoral main final week, he additionally made a wider funding menace to all New York Metropolis mayoral candidates.
“I can inform you this, whoever’s mayor of New York goes to should behave themselves, or the federal authorities is coming down very powerful on them financially,” Trump informed Bartiromo.
Trump has repeatedly referred to as Mamdani — who’s a Democratic socialist — a communist, as he did throughout the interview on Fox Information’ Sunday Morning Futures.
Mamdani has rejected that label.
“I’m not and I’ve already needed to begin to get used to the truth that the president will speak about how I look, how I sound, the place I am from, who I’m,” Mamdani informed NBC Information’ Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”