New York City residents collected $2.6 billion in welfare payments in 2025, and that was before Zohran Mamdani took office. Do you think that number will go up or down now that he is running the city?
The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71 percent increase in payments since 2022.
This is simply not sustainable. As the saying goes, something that can’t go on forever, won’t.
FOX News reports:
New Yorkers collected $2.6 billion in welfare cash payments last year, city data shows
New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed.
The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s.
The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71% increase from 2022’s $1.57 billion, data showed.