George Soros has pumped $37 million into the Working Families Party and a fleet of other far-left groups propping up Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, all while Mamdani rails against billionaire influence—leaving New Yorkers to wonder if the city is about to be bought and paid for by outside interests with an anti-American agenda.
At a Glance
- Zohran Mamdani, self-proclaimed democratic socialist, wins the Democratic primary for NYC mayor with major backing from Soros-funded groups.
- George Soros’ Open Society network funneled $37 million to the Working Families Party and nine other progressive organizations supporting Mamdani since 2016.
- Mamdani’s platform includes rent freezes, city-run grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage, and aggressive new taxes targeting “richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
- Business leaders and moderate Democrats sound the alarm about economic collapse and hypocrisy as billionaire cash bankrolls anti-billionaire politics.
Soros Millions Fuel the Far-Left Takeover of NYC Politics
In what many New Yorkers are calling the most brazen political hijacking in city history, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani—darling of the democratic socialist movement—has rocketed to the front of the 2025 mayoral race. The fuel for his meteoric rise? A tidal wave of Soros-linked cash. Financial disclosures show the Open Society Foundation and its affiliates have poured at least $37 million since 2016 into the Working Families Party and a network of nine other progressive groups that mobilized for Mamdani’s campaign. While Mamdani’s team maintains he hasn’t received direct donations from Soros himself, the money trail is clear: the groups doing Mamdani’s heavy lifting, from get-out-the-vote to media blitzes, are flush with funds from the world’s most notorious left-wing billionaire.
That’s right, the same George Soros who bankrolls open borders, anti-police agitation, and radical prosecutors from coast to coast is now underwriting the most extreme mayoral agenda the Big Apple has ever seen. The Working Families Party alone has received a staggering $23.7 million from Soros-linked entities. Add another $14 million funneled to other aligned nonprofits—like Move On, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, and Make the Road Action—and suddenly the “grassroots” uprising looks a lot like an oligarch’s hostile takeover. This is political influence at a scale that makes Tammany Hall look like a bake sale.
The Hypocrisy Olympics: Anti-Billionaire Crusader, Billionaire-Backed Machine
Zohran Mamdani has built his brand attacking wealth and demonizing anyone who’s ever signed the front of a paycheck. He’s called for sky-high property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” and declared, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly.” Yet the entire infrastructure keeping his campaign afloat—from field staff to media consultants—runs on cash from the billionaire class. The irony is enough to make any rational observer’s head spin. While Mamdani rails against “oligarchy and corporate dominance,” he’s literally being propelled by the king of oligarchic political spending himself.
Business leaders and moderates aren’t buying the populist act. Supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis warns the city’s economy will implode if Mamdani’s tax hikes and city-run grocery store fantasies become law. “If you punish job creators and reward activists, you get empty shelves and closed businesses,” he says. Even Eric Adams, running as an independent after being ejected from the far-left coalition, blasted Mamdani for “screaming about billionaires with one hand while pocketing their money with the other.” The hypocrisy doesn’t stop there: as calls to abolish the police and unleash city-run housing grow louder, the only folks getting safer and richer are the nonprofit executives and consultants living off Soros’ largesse.
Radical Agenda: NYC as a Socialist Laboratory
Mamdani’s policy wish list reads like a fever dream cooked up in a faculty lounge: city-run grocery stores, free buses, rent freezes, 200,000 new affordable housing units, universal child care, and a $30 minimum wage. The bill for this utopian experiment? Astronomical. Yet with Soros money greasing every wheel and the Working Families Party organizing a disciplined ranked-choice voting operation, Mamdani steamrolled his way to a 56% primary victory, leaving Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams in the dust. National progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders wasted no time parachuting in with endorsements, further cementing the city’s transformation into a testing ground for the far left’s wildest dreams.
This isn’t just another election—it’s a calculated ideological coup. Mamdani’s coalition, built on the bones of the city’s old Democratic establishment, is poised to replace pragmatic governance with a parade of “equity” schemes, punishing taxes, and endless government expansion. Business leaders warn of an exodus, with some threatening to reduce operations or flee the city outright. And yet, the nonprofit-industrial complex is alive and well, growing fat off taxpayer subsidies and billionaire handouts, all while ordinary New Yorkers wonder who will pay the price when the bill comes due.
