Mamdani Blows $Millions on Transsexuals While Stiffing Police

Governing is all about setting priorities — especially where there is not enough money to cover government spending, as in New York City. Zohran Mamdani has made his priorities clear.

Via National Review:

The New York City Council approved a new budget on Tuesday that allocates almost $7 million for “trans equity” programs and doesn’t include any spending for the additional police officers Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised to hire.

To quote H.L. Mencken, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Voters must have wanted expensive privileges for the sexually deranged rather than safe streets, or they would not have voted for Mamdani.

Mamdani previously pledged to hire 580 new cops, but the money for the new positions was noticeably absent from the city’s most recent $126 billion spending plan.

No way was the pro-criminal and pro-terrorist Mamdani going to spend the money on public safety. His progressive base would not stand for it:

Mamdani’s pledge to hire more cops received pushback from his most progressive supporters, including the Democratic Socialists of America, New York Communities for Change, and Desis Rising Up & Moving. In a letter opposing the expanded police force, 70 likeminded organizations criticized the mayor, citing his previous commitment to limit any additional police officers in the city.

Here’s where the money goes instead of toward reestablishing public order on New York’s anarchic streets:

The budget allocates $40,000 of taxpayer money to drag story hours, $600,000 to the Caribbean Equality Project, and $320,000 to Pride Center of Staten Island, among other expenditures. …

The budget also allocates: $1 million to Destiny Tomorrow, an LGBT group based in the Bronx, creating the “first-ever transitional housing program for transgender New Yorkers”; $705,000 to Gay Men’s Health Crisis; and $275,000 to Services And Advocacy For Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual And Transgender Elders, Inc.

Other spending priorities for Mamdani include a new propaganda bureau and chocolate condoms.

Wasting other people’s money on moonbattery has already resulted in what Mamdani calls a “budget crisis of a historic magnitude.” The hope is that the state can bail the city out by applying moonbat math. This won’t last, but if Democrats take over Congress and the White House, the rest of the country can be forced to pick up the tab.

In the meantime, at least NYC can save a few dollars by not sufficiently funding the police.

On a tip from Varla.

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