CNN Host Erupts At ‘Out Of Control’ Blue Cities

CNN host Fareed Zakaria ranted at New York City and Los Angeles on Sunday, saying the two cities are “delivering less” even as spending increases.

Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City proposed a $127 billion budget for the city, drawing criticism from an editorial in the Washington Post. Zakaria said that both cities, as well as Chicago, were “producing unaffordability,” even as their mayors campaigned on affordability.

“New York is really a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront. Blue cities are out of control. Promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future day. Take Los Angeles, another one-party metropolis wrestling with affordability and disorder,” Zakaria said. “The city’s homelessness budget for fiscal year 2025-‘26 totals about $950 million. The L.A. Homelessness Services Authority reported that in 2023, homelessness was up 9 percent countywide and 10 percent in the city. And a 2024 AP account noted that homelessness has surged 70 percent countywide since 2015, and 80 percent in the city.”

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“All this amid public frustration despite billions spent. An audit reviewed 2.4 billion in city homelessness funding and found that officials could not reliably track where it went or what it achieved,” Zakaria said. “Or take Chicago, with a mayor whose approval rating is deep underwater, where the pension promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point.”

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