Conservative journalist Jack Posobiec didn’t mince words when he confronted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — a self-described Democratic Socialist — about his proposal to shift the property-tax burden onto what he called “whiter neighborhoods.”
The exchange took place at the White House during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Mamdani. Posobiec, known for asking the questions Democrats hope no one notices, brought up a campaign promise Mamdani repeatedly made: raising property taxes in wealthier, predominantly white areas of the city while lowering them in minority neighborhoods.
“Mr. President,” Posobiec began, “one of the policies Mayor-elect Mamdani talked about a number of times was shifting the property-tax burden from minority communities to white-based communities — putting more taxes on white people. I also noticed in your acceptance speech you didn’t mention America, or Christians, or white people at all. Is this something you discussed together?”
Mamdani tried to steer the conversation into safer territory. “We focused on affordability, the cost-of-living crisis,” he said, before defending his interest in “property-tax reform.” He claimed the current system is so “inequitable” it can’t survive legal scrutiny, and that he and President Trump discussed expanding housing and streamlining regulations.
But Posobiec didn’t let him dodge. “To be clear,” he pressed, “you’re continuing this idea of race-based property taxes.”
Mamdani denied it — but Posobiec immediately reminded him that this was exactly what he said on the campaign trail.
Mamdani then tried to soften the language, claiming the term “white neighborhoods” was merely a “description of neighborhoods, not intent.”
“So you intend to tax the whiter neighborhoods more,” Posobiec fired back.
Mamdani repeated that his goal was a “fair property-tax system” to make the city “more affordable” and “equitable.”
But the record speaks for itself. Breitbart News previously reported that Mamdani’s own campaign proposal, titled “Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners,” explicitly promised to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
In other words: he said it, he ran on it, and now he’s trying to pretend he didn’t.
