Trump threatens to cut off New York City funds if Mamdani ‘doesn’t behave’

These people can't stop advertising Zohran.

I know, stop selling past the close.
- THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
  spreads attention to this matter
Don't Mess With The Zohran
- Zohran the Destroyer

Hi, Clevelander here. I have no horse in this race, but thanks for making Mamdani go from being completely unheard of from me, to now a household name due to the Streisand effect.

Thanks for letting me know who I'm voting for in 2028.

He can't run, he's naturalised. Bullshit rule.
- He can totally run against Trump for his third term. If Orange Chicken tries that, there are no rules anymore anyhow.
- Eh, it's not the worst rule.
Fox News ironically being the source to learn about your new social democrats
The oligarchy’s cries are the kind of endorsement that money can’t buy.
Globalize mamdanism

lol more like NYC stop funding the federal government. They give more than receive.

I agree with the sentiment, but it's individuals and businesses paying the federal taxes in NYC. You'd have to somehow get them all to agree to put their personal freedoms at risk by not paying their federal taxes
Donald Trump knows he faces no personal risk by withholding funding, because the SCOTUS has declared him immune. He can break any law with impunity
- Well, the IRS uses regional IRS offices which would be easier to disrupt if a large number of states such as KY, MO, and NY participated, and there is some talk of something like that happening soon in WI, NY, MD, and CT as a result of Trump withholding federal funding for programs which were passed by congress.
  This definitely isn't a battle Trump would want to escalate if he were smart.
- That's not at all how our financial system works

So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I'd bet they pay more than they get.

The problem is that federal income taxes are generally paid directly by employers to the federal government. It's not clear by what mechanism states and/or cities might withhold them.
It's true that the State of New York, and NYC are both large employers, so hypothetically I guess they could refuse to collect income taxes from their employees on behalf of the federal government, but certainly the IRS would still hold the individual taxpayers responsible for those taxes at the end of the year.
- If it gets to the point where the States are withholding money from the federal government, I'd wager it's because they no longer view the federal government as legitimate. I guess, good luck to the IRS trying to collect?
- The state is a pretty big employer, so that portion might be held back for a while. That would still have to be paid by the end of the year, though.

As a New Yorker I would like to see that orange fascist try. I can almost guarantee that if Zohran organizes a workers militia today itll have tens of thousands of volunteers tomorrow. I myself would happily throw arms with federal pigs.

Is this how a civil war starts?
- Very much so.
- It start when terrible people in power have decent support for part of population and the other part fight for freedom by any mean
- I guess so.
- No. It started with the Brooks Brothers Riot.
I read that as feral pigs but still made complete sense.
- Hmmm... maybe time for the left to appropriate the 30 to 50 feral hogs meme.
I would like to see that orange fascist try
Yanking funding from state and local agencies is almost trivial, thanks to the DOGE infestation of the US Treasury. Quite literally a matter of button-clicks.
The dream of the Unitary Executive under Bush, has finally been realized under Trump 2. Congress simply could not stop handing the Executive branch more and more authority, both implicit and explicit, until now they're effectively superfluous.
The one upside is that - given the state of Trump's BBLB - there may not be much funding left to pull from NYC by the time they're done gutting the domestic budget.
- The executive has so much power because the Republicans in congress are his complete bitches. And they are in charge.
Just take over wall street and cut the trader's communications.

Baby dick is just keeping magat attention on Mamdani so the senate can fuck over Medicare and social security while they’re distracted

Art of the deal.
- Fart and a Squeal
B...but the Republicans PROMISED that they wouldn't touch medicare or social security.
Are you saying they lied?
Are you saying conservatives are liars?

You don't mess with the Zohran.

Came here for this and I wasn't let down, you punny quipper you.
😀
A talented artist should combine Zohran Mamdani's campaign photo and the movie posters for "Conan the Destroyer" and "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" to produce a "Zohran the Destroyer" meme image.
- Zohran the Destroyer
  Jesse Waters graphic design department really missed the memo.

Oh yeah go to war with New York and Cali, see how that goes for you.

New York should just become Southern Ontario

Sounds good to me!
NY was the eleventh state in the US. We’d become the eleventh province of Canada, nice!
And be under Ford?
- Fair point. I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to that

NATO chief calls him daddy once and now he wants to be “fatherly”

Trump can suck a dick. Lousy bastard has got megalomania so bad it would be a worldwide disservice to allow him to continue

Orange scared.

That's called fascism.

Time for the wealthy blue states to break away.

You don't bite the hand that feeds.

Any state or local gov that is cut off from federal funds without a legal basis shouldn't have to pay federal taxes.

without a legal basis
What keeps them from just inventing new bullshit laws, then?

Insurrectionist traitors who should have been impeached, fired, and sent to federal prison don't get to tell anyone how to behave. New York pays more into federal taxes than it receives, if Trump wants to kill Blue State programs he's about to learn where the tax money comes from.

So election interference? Can the court rule if the president has that power too?

You’re going to drive yourself crazy with those questions. Just accept that this piece of shit, under qualified administration will be doing illegal shit and being shameless hypocrites multiple times on a daily basis and start finding ways to resist, no matter how big or small.
- I just need the answer on record. I'm fine with protesting. However if the sitting president can steal money from the people bc of party difference, yeah violence will be the correct response.
  Disclaimer: I am not calling for violence, mods.

Learn to live without the feds at this point.

Yup.
It's balkanization for the Un-united States.
Cool experiment while it lasted.

I guess mamdani better start grabbing women by the pussy, committing felonies, sucking Russian dicks, and committing treason.

Uh huh. He's got A LOT of catching up to do.

Trump is white supremacist extremist pornography in my opinion.

New York state should require anyone wanting to consume media of Trump online should have to give NY state two pieces of ID and wait for NY to verify them being ovr 21 or be blocked.

“He’s a radical left lunatic,” Trump said.

Says the radical fascist lunatic. Projection is omnipresent in this new Nazi Führer Cult party.

Cool, maybe we'll stop giving charity to all the red states then. NY can be self sufficient. Shit hole red states can't.

This republic has really gone bananas.

Dead Rabbits Rise!

The 19th century Irish street gang in NYC?

I recommend New York stop paying taxes to the federal government.

Ultimate toddler telling people to behave?

They bring in more taxes than they spend, "cutting them off" will only benefit them as long as they are smart enough to keep the revenue in state.

Daddy's gonna bring out the strap.

Has Lemmy just became a hub for stories on this guy?

Whatever I want more stories about cool people who make me happy
- No way man, needs to be Trump and Musk news 24/7.
“This guy” is likely going to be mayor of New York, joining the likes of Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Eric Adams.
As such, he’s making headlines everywhere, although the spin is all over the map.
As opposed to the 24/7 Trump show?
I get your point this though.