‘Dictator’ Mamdani has even his far-left NYC Council allies seeing red: ‘He’s flailing’

NY Post ^ | 4/02/26 | Craig McCarthy, Haley Brown, Matt Troutman

[Libloather]

Even the Reds are seeing red.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has succeeded in at least one thing during his fresh-faced administration — infuriating everyone, including his typically ride-or-die lefty buds, over his bald-faced lie that the City Council’s budget plan cuts services.

Peeved City Council members roundly ripped Mamdani after he used one of his slick social-media videos Wednesday to call out Speaker Julie Menin by name and wrongly portray her budget proposal — an alternative to his doomsday version — as slashing billions of dollars from city agencies.

“This is deeply misleading and potentially harmful! I thought these four years were going to be different,” Councilman Kevin Riley (D-Bronx) — an obviously disappointed Mamdani backer — posted on X.

Councilwoman Virginia Maloney (D-Manhattan) also served up a blistering online rebuttal of Mamdani’s assertions.

“I know math is hard, but the @NYCCouncil finance team did the work—digging into the details to find real solutions,” she wrote.

“The Mayor’s proposed City budget is a whopping $127 billion. The City’s not broke, we’re just badly managed. And we can balance this budget responsibly without putting our long-term fiscal health at risk.”

The furious backlash led the thin-skinned mayor to then fire off irked texts to a council member complaining about the critical social-media posts, sources said.

[Jacquerie]

<>“The Mayor’s proposed City budget is a whopping $127 billion. <>

The budget for the state of Florida is $117 billion.

[Kudsman]

I thought these four years were going to be different

Said everyone put up against the wall.

[TalBlack]

The city council could always hide behind being a major party democrat in advancing their communism but Mamdani is a declared commie who doesn’t give a shite.

[Sirius Lee]

I figured things would go a lot smoother if you hired a communist to run the world’s capitol of capitalism. Such a surprise that they aren’t. So unexpected...