A Republican lawmaker is seeking to halt all federal funding to New York City following the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor

Zohran Mamdani didn’t wait long after winning the New York City mayoral race to address the man who had threatened to defund the city — and even have him arrested or deported if he became mayor.

“Donald Trump, I’m sure you’re watching. I have four words for you: turn the volume up,” Mamdani said from the stage at his victory celebration in Brooklyn.

He directly challenged the president, telling the crowd: “If there is any city that can show a country betrayed by Donald Trump how to beat him, it’s the city that produced him.”

His comments reflected how both men have used each other as political contrasts — Mamdani rising from a little-known state lawmaker to a national Democratic figure, while Trump paints Democrats as extreme and disconnected from ordinary Americans.

Mamdani, born in Uganda and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, positioned himself as a symbol of resistance to Trump’s second-term crackdowns on immigrants.

“New York will stay a city of immigrants — built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and now led by an immigrant,” he said. “So hear me clearly, President Trump: to get to one of us, you’ll have to go through all of us.”

Trump, who has spent months attacking Mamdani and warning that his election would ruin the city, appeared to be watching.