Speaker of the House Mike Johnson blasted Zohran Mamdani and his Department of Health after the New York Post revealed the creation of a so-called “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group,” which officials openly acknowledged was formed in response to an alleged genocide in Gaza. Yet while elements of Mamdani’s DOH are preoccupied with foreign conflicts halfway around the world, New York City’s streets remain buried under filthy snow and growing piles of garbage.
“Instead of trying to force a radical-left foreign policy agenda, the bureaucrats in Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Health should focus on delivering the services New Yorkers pay for with their tax dollars,” the Speaker of the House wrote on X.
Attached to his post was a New York Post article detailing the creation of the “Global Oppression and Public Health Working Group” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Department of Health. In a video obtained by the Post, one speaker revealed that the group was “developed in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.”
In response, even New York City’s City Council Speaker, Julie Menin, a Democrat, said, “Our health care officials should be fighting infectious diseases and addressing skyrocketing health care costs instead of spending public time debating geopolitics on city time.”