{"id":639524,"date":"2026-07-22T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639524"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:51:20","slug":"new-yorks-welfare-bill-keeps-climbing-and-no-ones-hitting-the-brakes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639524","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s welfare bill keeps climbing and no one\u2019s hitting the brakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The number of New York City residents who collected welfare reached a record high in 2025, according to a review of city records.<\/p>\n

Conducted by Fox News<\/a>, the review found that 864,999 New Yorkers collected welfare in 2025. This marked a 30-year high not seen since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani enacted welfare reform in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

Combined, the nearly one million welfare recipients collected $2.6 billion in taxpayer funds last year, up 71 percent from the $1.57 billion collected in 2022.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 : ,<\/p>\n

New York City just quietly blew past a benchmark it hasn\u2019t touched in three decades. City records reviewed by the New York Post show\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/lteQ6TJkUU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New York City\u2019s third-world mayor, Zohran Mamdani, appears to be happy about these otherwise outrageous numbers. On June 1, his office posted a note<\/a> celebrating how he\u2019d supposedly helped \u201c223,000 New Yorkers maintain access to\u201d Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.<\/p>\n

His office also vowed to get even more people on the dole.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeginning this month, the administration is expanding a citywide canvassing and phone-banking effort to reach the remaining New Yorkers still at risk of losing food assistance,\u201d the office noted.<\/p>\n

The office also attacked the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for daring to kick lazy able-bodied adults off federal welfare assistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal legislation known as H.R. 1 is one of the most significant attacks on the social safety net in recent memory,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThe law eliminated automatic work requirement exemptions for homeless people, veterans and young adults formerly in foster care. These changes do not address unemployment; they make it harder for people to access food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani personally issued a statement also decrying the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood stamp work requirements don\u2019t create jobs, they create hunger,\u201d he alleged. \u201cIf the federal government wanted to help people find work, it would invest in public jobs programs and guarantee a living wage. Instead, it\u2019s punishing people who are already struggling to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere in New York, we refuse to stand by while Washington takes food away from our families. We are using every tool available to keep New Yorkers connected to the benefits they deserve,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Food stamp work requirements don\u2019t create jobs, they create hunger.<\/p>\n

If the federal government wanted to help people find work, it would invest in public jobs programs and guarantee a living wage.<\/p>\n

Instead, it\u2019s punishing people who are already struggling to survive.<\/p>\n

These\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/bMm9Q0na81<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Critics pushed back hard on the envy and resentment he was preaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood stamp work requirements don\u2019t create hunger; they end the free ride for able-bodied adults who\u2019d rather scroll TikTok than flip burgers 20 hours a week,\u201d one critic opined<\/a> on social media. \u201cExemptions already cover the disabled, elderly, and parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour \u2018public jobs & living wage\u2019 fantasy is just more taxpayer-funded sloth that NYC can\u2019t afford. Work or starve? Nah. Work and eat like the rest of us, champ,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work requirement is 20 [hours] PER WEEK,\u201d another critic wrote<\/a>. \u201cPeople over 65, people with dependents & the disabled are exempt. Any able bodied person who\u2019s unwilling to 20 hours a week is a deadbeat who should not get others hard earned money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There is no such thing as a \u201cliving wage.\u201d It\u2019s ridiculous that you communists keep using that term.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Karen Kennedy (@realkarenjean) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Your pathetic socialist agenda is just taking money from people who worked hard their own lives!!!! Besides being a rabid Jew hater you are trying to steal all of our money. Literally you need to be removed you bastard.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robin jack (@proudmomjac) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Your city is filthy. Use that work requirement to pick up the trash on the streets. Remove the graffitti. Set some rat traps. And pressure wash the sidewalks.<\/p>\n

You will be giving people purpose, pride in the place they live, AND food.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Cougar (@Cougar_Laymon) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Comrade Mamdani, I think you\u2019re forgetting what V.I. Lenin said on the issue: \u201cHe who does not work, shall not eat.\u201d For some reason you\u2019re advocating for people that Lenin famously characterized as \u201ca parasite on the body of society.\u201d Looks like you\u2019ve been subverted.<\/p>\n

\u2014 AB Interceptor (@ABInterceptor) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How to scare a communist 101 pic.twitter.com\/5nZKfPoDfQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 themoderateman (@themoderateman9) May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The number of New York City residents who collected welfare reached a record high in 2025, according to a review of city records. Conducted by Fox News, the review found that 864,999 New Yorkers collected welfare in 2025. This marked a 30-year high not seen since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani enacted welfare reform in… Continue reading New York\u2019s welfare bill keeps climbing and no one\u2019s hitting the brakes!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}