The House voted 285-98 on Friday to denounce the “horrors of socialism,” a sharp rebuke delivered just hours before President Donald Trump sits down with New York’s incoming democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Eighty-six Democrats crossed the aisle to back the resolution, while two voted present. Republicans were unified in support.
Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders have blasted Mamdani’s victory in the nation’s largest city, casting him as the latest radical avatar of the Democratic Party. They’ve already signaled they plan to use him as a political battering ram heading into the 2026 midterms.
Democrats brushed off the attacks and took aim at the Republican-written measure, complaining it “selectively lists certain despotic leaders and the harms of totalitarian regimes self-labeled as ‘socialist.’” Still, party leaders stopped short of urging a formal no vote. Many moderates, especially those from New York, have been visibly uneasy about Mamdani’s sudden rise.
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Tensions spiked during the debate when Rep. Maria Salazar of Florida tore into Rep. Maxine Waters of California, accusing her of being a “friend” of Fidel Castro despite having visited Cuba and witnessed the regime’s abuses. Waters asked the House to strip the remarks, but Salazar withdrew them, and the chamber moved on.
Mamdani says he’s marching into the meeting with Trump with three key priorities for New Yorkers in mind: public safety, economic security, and “the affordability agenda that over 1 million New Yorkers voted for.”
The socialist mayor-elect has promised aggressive progressive action the moment he takes office. He says he will freeze rents on day one for the 2 million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments, make buses faster and free, and roll out free child care.
He has not elaborated at length on how he plans to pay for the costly initiatives.
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