STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said she was educating her colleagues as she spent three minutes Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives blasting socialist ideology and the proposed policies of incoming NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani.

“Socialism is communism light,” said Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.

A self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, the mayor-elect was visiting Washington, D.C. on Friday for a first-ever meeting with President Donald Trump.

With Mamdani due in town, Malliotakis set his proposed policies, such as government-run grocery stores, in her crosshairs.

“Yes, he says he’s a socialist. But guess what my friends, those are policies straight out of the communist playbook of Karl Marx.”

Mamdani has con

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