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Manhattan Institute Chief Slams NYC Mayor’s Welfare Plans

7/30/2026

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Reihan Salam, Manhattan Institute chief, leads a campaign against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordable-housing and welfare proposals in New York City.
Salam warns the mayor’s free-bus, free-child-care and rent-freeze plans could plunge the city into a 1970s-style financial tailspin.
Salam calls the policies “unlimited welfarism for the near-rich” and wants the Manhattan Institute to become the “intellectual engine of the resistance.”

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Reihan Salam, Manhattan Institute chief, leads a campaign against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s affordable-housing and welfare proposals in New York City.
Salam warns the mayor’s free-bus, free-child-care and rent-freeze plans could plunge the city into a 1970s-style financial tailspin.
Salam calls the policies “unlimited welfarism for the near-rich” and wants the Manhattan Institute to become the “intellectual engine of the resistance.”