Mamdani ripped for claiming victory over capitalism after NYC's multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded bailout

New York City's mayor is again under fire after spewing outlandish claims that his socialist policies are to credit for a balanced budget in the Big Apple, just after the city received a multi-billion dollar bailout from the state.

"In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a Tuesday post on X announcing that the debt had been cleared.

"We balanced the budget by taxing the...