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Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani rebuffed President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to withhold federal funds from New York if he is elected mayor, saying at a candidate forum in Harlem on Monday evening that he would fight any clawbacks of federal funds.

Hours earlier, Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social that Mamdani “is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City.”

“Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises,” added Trump. “He

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