Mamdani unveils new 'racial equity plan' for more 'equitable future' that prompts quick DOJ pushback

Fox News ^ | 4/06/26 | Andrew Mark Miller

[Libloather]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his "Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan" on Monday, which quickly prompted pushback from conservatives online and skepticism from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, with one top official saying she will "review" the move.

Mamdani’s office explained in a press release that the preliminary report, which the mayor had promised to release within 100 days in office, shows racial disparities in areas like housing, education, and income, and the new plan aims to "establish a new framework for how New York City measures affordability, understands inequity and plans for a more equitable future."

"The True Cost of Living Measure offers an honest account of what it actually costs to live in this city — and who is being left behind. It shows that this is not a crisis affecting a small minority of New Yorkers. It is a crisis touching the vast majority of our city, in every borough and every neighborhood," Mamdani said in the press release.

"But we know this crisis is not felt equally. Black and Latino New Yorkers — who have been pushed out of this city for decades — are bearing the brunt. The Preliminary Racial Equity Plan is where we begin to reverse that pattern. These reports make one thing clear: we cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity."

Mamdani’s announcement quickly sparked pushback from conservatives, as well as from the Trump administration, expressing concerns about race-based initiatives and spending which the administration has been working to undo since taking power last year.

"Sounds fishy/illegal," DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted on X. "Will review!"

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: doj; equity; madmani; racial

[Libloather]

Madmani picking winners and losers. Sounds raciss.

[brownsfan]

Give the people of NYC what they asked for... good and hard.

[Col Frank Slade]

A more equitable distribution of misery.

[wny]

In other words: let’s take whitey’s money …

[volare737]

Anyone that stays in NY deserves this…..

[VastRWCon]

“”and who is being left behind””

Get a second or third job, I have had 4 jobs at one time in my life.

[HYPOCRACY]

It never occurs to these scumbags that lowering taxes makes things affordable. I effing hate commies. It’s just non-stop reasons to enslave people. And we import stupid morons from shithole countries to vote for this.

[uranium penguin]

Just wait until they decide Harlem is too Black or too Hispanic.. And must be “equalized” with Arabs and Pakistanis...

[Sicon]

These reports make one thing clear: we cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity."

That's a long-winded way to say "communism".

[Da Coyote]

Such original thought. Mamdani is such a genius. He’s sure to succeed, just as previous single IQ communists and leftists have.

[PGalt]

New York City May or may not recover from ISLAMamdani.

[Rlsau1]

The left’s answer to every failure is more government and throwing more money at problems. The answer to most problems is seldom government as that is the primary source of the problem to begin with. If the Mayor was actually serious about helping NYC he would call in an army of forensic accountants to ID and shutdown the massive corruption that is NYC government. In other words use what you currently get in the most efficient manner to benefit the most people before seeking more money that the corrupt will just consume for themselves.

[Vaduz]

Mamdani unveils new racial equity another word scramble for socialism he’s all bullshit all the time.

[Vermont Lt]

Purity laws.

And they call us the Nazis.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I think that, after two or three years of “The True Cost of Living Measure”, blacks, Latinos and everyone else are going to learn The True Cost of Communism and the wealthy flee the city, everyone - including “black and brown people” - get the s___t taxed out of them, and city services go to Hell in a handbasket.

[butlerweave]

Mamdani is going waaaaay beyond the job description of a Mayor , should be arrested

[PeterPrinciple]

systemic racial inequity

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does that have the marketing power it used to?

[KarlInOhio]

shows racial disparities in areas like housing, education, and income,

I don't see crime, out of wedlock children and general idleness on his list. And the education is already a city responsibility. If the kids are getting a bad education, then it is s already a New York government failure... unless you're willing to blame the entire culture of the kids who not only refuse to learn but also actively destroy the education of those around them.

[sphinx]

I guess he wants NYC schools to teach black and hispanic kids to read and do math at grade level? Maybe even get them up to Asian American or Jewish levels? That would be useful.

Or maybe he wants to reverse the culture of illegitimacy and restore the dominance of the two parent family that existed before the 60’s among all racial groups?

Perhaps he wants to strengthen policing in low income neighborhoods, since New Yorkers of the minority persuasion are victimized by crime at hugely disproportionate levels?

No, no and no.

[Bon of Babble]

establish a new framework for how New York City measures affordability, understands inequity and plans for a more equitable future.

Spoken like a true Soviet Boss!

I'm sure real estate agents in Florida loved hearing this.

Those left in NY City better get TH out before their property is confiscated.