Radical Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that the city will open five city-owned, taxpayer-funded grocery stores, one in each borough, with prices on a core basket of items set at up to 30% below typical retail.

The plan, a centerpiece of Mamdani’s campaign, will use $70 million in capital funds. The city will own the land or space, cover construction, renovations, rent, and property taxes.

Core discounted items include all fresh produce, meat, and seafood, plus about 20 pantry staples, dairy, and refrigerated goods such as eggs, milk, bread, cheese, rice, and beans. Prices on that basket will be locked in monthly at 30% below typical retail with “no exceptions, no gimmicks.” Other products sell at market rates. Officials claim the average household could save about $90 a month or $1,000 a year, according to ABC7 NY.

Mamdani framed it as fighting corporate greed and rising prices: “Every week, New Yorkers walk into a grocery store hoping the prices haven’t gone up again… A trip to the grocery store shouldn’t spell dread for New Yorkers. That’s why we are guaranteeing a 30% discount on the most common and most critical groceries for families across the five boroughs — including eggs, milk, chicken and fresh fruits and vegetables. In a city that’s defined by unpredictability, you deserve stability — no matter what aisle you’re in.”

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Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores:

“Prices set at 30% below retail prices” pic.twitter.com/lBk5MQhZRL

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 27, 2026

But there is nothing “free” about Mamdani’s socialist supermarket scheme.

The city has already committed a staggering $70 million in capital funding to construct and prepare the five locations.

Under the plan, New York City will provide grocery-ready sites, fund the initial construction, cover rent and property taxes and create a single government-approved brand for the stores.

Private grocery operators will be selected to handle staffing, inventory, merchandising and other daily operations, but City Hall will establish the pricing mandates, labor requirements and performance standards.

The city released a request for proposals Monday seeking private companies willing to operate the taxpayer-backed markets.

The first location is expected to open at The Peninsula development in Hunts Point, the Bronx, by the end of 2027. Another 9,000-square-foot store is planned for La Marqueta in East Harlem but is not expected to open until 2029.

Sites in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island have not yet been selected, although Mamdani claims all five stores will be operational before the end of his first term.

According to the Mamdani administration, the taxpayer-backed markets will not sell high-profit products such as cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets or prepared hot foods in an alleged effort to avoid competing with neighborhood bodegas.

But removing a few products does not change the basic economics.

Private supermarkets and bodegas must pay their own rent, property taxes, construction costs, maintenance bills and insurance premiums. Mamdani’s government-backed competitors will have many of those expenses covered by taxpayers while selling popular grocery staples at artificially reduced prices.

How is a family-owned grocery store supposed to compete against a rival funded by City Hall?

Owners have called it a “slap in the face” and said the city is “using our tax money to compete with us.” Some have noted that a large share of their customers use SNAP benefits and will simply shift to the subsidized locations.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, approximately 45 grocery stores already operate within a 35-minute walk of Mamdani’s planned East Harlem location.

The area includes major chains, smaller supermarkets and neighborhood bodegas already operating on thin profit margins.

“Of course it will affect this store,” Sarah Kang, manager of a nearby CTown Supermarkets location, said when asked about Mamdani’s government-backed competitor.

The Gateway Pundit also reported in April that the East Harlem location alone could cost taxpayers roughly $30 million, and will not open until 2029.

What could possibly go wrong?

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RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune lashed out at Trump after the President blasted Thune over the SAVE America Act in a statement this morning.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump said the Democrats “can’t believe how lucky they got” with Thune as Senate Majority Leader amid an ongoing feud between Thune and the White House over the SAVE Act.

Trump went on to tell reporters on Air Force One this afternoon that Thune needs to “get his job done,” though he said he has a “good relationship with John Thune” and declined to say whether Thune should be ousted as majority leader.

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Thune responded to the President’s comments, purporting to be clueless on how to get results, suggesting that Trump needs to “show me how we get an outcome.”

“If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how we get an answer to this, I’m all for it,” Thune said, according to Punchbowl News’s Em Luetkemeyer.

“But if we are going to be sitting here in endless quorum calls, I don’t know if that’s in anybody’s best interest,” he added.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune reacts to President Trump saying the Senate shouldn’t recess until the SAVE Act is passed:

“If somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how we get an answer to this, I’m all for it,” Thune said. “But if we are going to be…

— Em Luetkemeyer (@em_luetkemeyer) July 27, 2026

Similarly, Thune lashed out at White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, suggesting she should do his job, after Leavitt told reporters that the President is “running out” of patience for Thune.

“She or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes, right?” Thune told reporters after Leavitt’s comment.

“Instead of you know pointing the finger at Republicans, they might think about going after the people who are stopping it on the floor, which is the Democrats, and if there are Republicans that they think are gettable, get on the phone,” he added.

So, the Democrats are “stopping it on the floor,” but Thune also admits that members of his own caucus are not currently willing to vote for it. And at the same time, the White House needs to stop “pointing the finger at Republicans,” according to Thune’s contradictory statement.

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WATCH: Leavitt Confirms Trump’s Patience with Thune on Save Act “Running Out” After Trump Lights Him Up – Thune Responds!

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Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has responded to President Donald Trump mocking his failed Bud Light partnership, while taking a jab at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for looking like the male activist.

Trump’s comments were made during remarks at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Friday night.

The president brought up Collins after she received an award for her coverage of the administration.

“I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake — she shouldn’t get the award; it was a fake,” Trump began.

“I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney cost Bud Light $35 billion in market cap. That was the worst commercial ever made, by the way, for those few people who want to hear that. Most people don’t care, but I would. I wouldn’t want to hire Dylan any time soon.”

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Trump: Kaitlan Collins is a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. Do you ever smile? I thought she had really made it big with a major new sponsorship but then I informed her that it was not her on the Bud Light can. It was Dylan Mulvaney pic.twitter.com/Eqfu4gs7kA

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 25, 2026

Trump later doubled down by posting an AI-generated image on Truth Social that superimposed Collins’ face onto Mulvaney’s body from the 2023 Bud Light advertisement.

The Anheuser-Busch brand had partnered with Mulvaney for an Instagram and TikTok campaign featuring a personalized can with his face.

The promotion triggered a massive boycott from conservatives, leading to sharp declines in sales and significant market value losses for the company.

Mulvaney responded on Sunday with a nearly four-minute video posted to Instagram.

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“Now, the president also brought up a video I did over three years ago, and mind you, I’ve been kind of flying under the radar, keeping up a pretty low profile, just like doing my little musicals, singing, dancing. And yet, I am still his topic of conversation all these years later,” Mulvaney said.

“And it seems to me that I might be like the one that got away for these men. Like, I am permanently burned into their retinas. I am microchipped into their minds.”

Mulvaney congratulated Collins on the award, calling the comparison an honor, and then reframed the mockery as a positive.

“In fact, maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all, because it puts me in the company of some of like the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today.”

He concluded, “And lastly, to the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew.”

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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson on Monday evening denied President Trump’s request to immediately reinstate key parts of his executive order on mail-in ballots.

Justice Jackson gave the Democrat-run plaintiff states seven days to respond to Trump’s emergency application.

Last month, a federal judge blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots.

Boston-based US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, blocked President Trump’s March 2025 executive order, specifically his attempt to create a federal voter list.

In March 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” the executive order said.

“Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error,” the EO said.

“et the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote,” the executive order said.

“Several Federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611, prohibit foreign nationals from registering to vote or voting in Federal elections,” Trump said.

Last month a separate federal judge permanently banned Trump from implementing his executive order that required proof of citizenship when they register to vote.

Boston-based US District Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, said the Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”

On Saturday, a federal appeals court refused to allow President Trump enforce key parts of his executive order.

President Trump filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court earlier Monday and Justice Jackson denied his request.

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President Trump on Monday responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for criticizing his plan to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, saying, “Nobody tells me what we should be selling or not.”

Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Trump on Tuesday at the White House during a visit to the United States, where he will also attend the wake for late Senator Lindsey Graham. Trump told reporters that he and Netanyahu are “pretty close” to the same page. “We have a little difference, but pretty close,” Trump said.

But he made it clear that they’re not on the same page regarding Turkey.

Earlier this month, Netanyahu appeared on CNN with Dana Bash hours after Trump said he would sell F-35s to Turkey during the NATO Summit in Ankara, overturning a ban from his first term.

“He’s not exactly a model ally of the United States,” Netanyahu said, asserting that the move “doesn’t make Turkey a friendly state to the United States.”

“It would destroy the power balance in the Middle East,” he continued. “This is not a force for peace and stability… When you give them that power, you’re going to see aggression in its wake.”

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Trump was asked on Air Force One earlier about Netanyahu’s opposition, and he essentially told the Israeli Prime Minister to pound sand.

“Well, look, Turkey’s been a great ally for me. You know, I think he’s done a very good job, did a good job with Syria. He’s a friend of mine,” Trump said of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“And nobody tells me what we should be selling or not. Turkey’s been a tremendous ally for me.”

“If it was up to Turkey, Turkey would,” Trump continued, noting they’re “not a big fan of Israel” and “not a big fan of Bibi.”

“They’ve been great for me. Turkey has been great, very powerful country, by the way. Tremendous military, very big military, very powerful military, has a lot of great equipment.”

When asked if Netanyahu wants the US to strike a deal with Iran or keep fighting, Trump declined to say but suggested that Netanyahu wants the US to keep going.

“Bibi has been great. I’m not going to say it. He was a wartime prime minister. We did very well together, and if you look at Iran now, they’re 8% of what they were four months ago. They’re 8% of what they were four months ago. So we’ll see how this all comes out.”

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As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, President Trump has halted US strikes against Iran as talks resume over the Strait of Hormuz and a potential long-term peace deal.

Still, Trump said he’s ready to “go back to very strong military action” in “not much time.”

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US Pauses Iran Strikes as Negotiations Resume but Trump Says He’s Ready to “Go Back to Very Strong Military Action” – Talks Will Proceed “Fast or Not at All.”

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