Gov. Kathy Hochul promised Tuesday to "fight like hell" to dissuade President Donald Trump from carrying out his threats to yank federal funding from New York if Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.

Speaking after Mamdani appeared at her side at an unrelated event in Queens about funding youth programs and housing, Hochul said she’d appeal to Trump — who earlier in the day called Mamdani a "down-and-dirty" communist — as a former New Yorker himself.

For months, Trump has repeatedly said he’d throttle funding to New York, and has done so on several occasions — including recently with $18 billion in already approved infrastructure projects — with varying degrees of success.

"This is detrimental to his properties, his business interests, his friends in the city, and

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