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NEW YORK, NY — In a celebratory speech following his historic win in New York City's mayoral election, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised residents that there was no problem too large for government to make worse.

"I want to speak to all the foreigners out there. Not the whites, the brown people," Mamdani said to raucous applause. "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to make worse and no problem too small to stick our nose in."

Making large problems worse was one of Mamdani's primary campaign promises, and he seems eager to deliver. Crime was already a major problem in the city, as are housing affordability, transportation, sanitation, mental health, and homelessness. But, when Mamdani's term as mayor begins in January, he told New Y

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