Kathy Hochul & Zohran Mamdani 🀝 Higher Costs for New Yorkers

January 7, 2026

Radical Democrat Kathy Hochul and socialist Zohran Mamdani held a press conference to celebrate… higher taxes! 

Yep, the pair actually bragged about the expensive and unpopular congestion pricing scheme and confirmed that tolls are “on schedule to go up,” eventually rising from $9 to $15. Hochul is also refusing to implement President Trump and Republicans’ no tax on tips policy that would put about $1,300 back into the pockets of tipped workers. 

Hochul and Mamdani’s painful, cost-hiking agenda is the same one that every single New York Democrat, including Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen, champions.

β€œInstead of fighting to make life more affordable, crazy Kathy Hochul, dangerous socialist Zohran Mamdani, and out of touch Democrats Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen are making New Yorkers’ commutes more expensive, and then siphoning more money from them once they get there. It is totally backwards and wrong.” β€“ NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole