electoralism

This headline is bullshit. He isn't cutting anything. If you look at the actual budget proposal (https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/feb26/perc2-26.pdf) and take a look at page 43 (Police Department totals), you'll see that the budget proposal for 2026 (as approved by the last mayor) is $6,162,977,467 and the proposed budget for 2027 (as approved by Mamdani) is $6,400,777,947, which is in fact a budget growth of $237 million!

He is just not growing it by as much as the previous mayor had wanted, and people are calling that a cut (the people calling it a cut are Fox News, by the way, who want to portray this loser who is actually not anti-cop as some evil socialist cutting police budgets). Why anyone here would read Fox at face value is beyond me.