Over the next four years, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will not only lead the world's financial capital, but he'll also have control over public funds topping $1 trillion. REUTERS
Over the next four years, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will not only lead the world’s financial capital, but he’ll also have control over public funds topping $1 trillion.
This includes roughly $500 billion in operating budgets, $200 billion in capital projects and, at least in part, $300 billion in pension assets.
That’s an extraordinary amount of power in the hands of one official.
The question is: Will he weaponize those funds to carry out his anti-Zionist agenda, even if at great expense to the public?
Indeed, Mamdani could turn municipal governance into a weapon of ideology in an extraordinary, unprece

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