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Trump Slams Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax as Judge Halts Implementation

President Donald Trump slammed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax on certain second properties in a Tuesday post on Truth Social and threatened federal action.

The president said the tax “is costing New York City and State a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to to [sic] the TAXES PAID by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return. Florida, Texas, and numerous other States, are making an absolute fortune!”

“I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn,” Trump stated.

On Monday, Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ruled that the city must remove the tax listing of 960,000 properties it posted online in July. That followed a lawsuit by three homeowners who said that “the City incorrectly identified their homes as potentially subject to the surcharge despite those properties serving........

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