President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring ways for the federal government to forcibly end New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre tax, which targets second homes.
The president wrote on Truth Social that the tax “is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to to the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return. Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune!”
“This dangerous political “experiment” in New York will destroy what was once a great City and State. It is pure Amateur Hour, and it’s hard, as President of the United States of America, to sit back and watch it happen, especially to a place I once loved. Financial, and then Social, RUIN, is a 100% certainty – And then the Radical Left Jihadists charge Congestion Pricing on top of everything else,” he continued. “This doesn’t work in America, and must be stopped, NOW! I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn.”
The provision would impose a new tax on individuals who own multiple properties in New York City in addition to their primary residence. A Staten Island judge blocked Mamdani from implementing the tax on Monday, but the mayor’s office said it planned to appeal the ruling.
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Trump, a native New Yorker, has a complicated relationship with Mamdani, whom the president previously labeled as a poster child of the so-called “communist” takeover of the Democratic Party.
However, following Mamdani’s electoral victory last year, Trump hosted the mayor at the White House for a surprisingly pleasant visit. The president has largely avoided attacking Mamdani personally in the ensuing months, though he has criticized some of his policies.