Jeffries calls for the controversy of the “legitimate” Mamdani rent control apartment

The chief of the minority of the Democratic Chamber, Hakeem Jeffries, again refused to make an approval of the socialist candidate of the town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, and said that the recent controversy on Mamdani living in an apartment stabilized is a “legitimate problem”.

“Well, listen to, this is a problem for state legislators and the state government to train,” Jeffries told CNBC on Thursday morning when he was asked about Mamdani living in a stabilized rent in Queens, despite a height of almost $ 150,000 per year.

When they were in a hurry on New Yorkers who do much less and do not have access to rent-controlled apartments, Jeffries said: “It is a legitimate question that has been raised, and the campaign will have to resolve it.”

Mamdani faced intensified criticisms to live in the apartment controlled by the rent while campaigning on the need for affordable housing, including his opponent, former governor Andrew Cuomo, who has floating legislation that he nicknamed the “Zohran law” to prevent high income people from occupying stabilized rent apartments.

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The head of the House minority, Hakeem Jeffries, said Thursday that questions about the life of the socialist candidate for the socialist mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, are “legitimate”. (Getty)

Mamdani, who previously recognized that he is from a rich family, said that he had rented the apartment of $ 2,300 per month before he became an assembly and did not know when he signed the lease that it was a stabilized rent apartment.

This week, Mamdani was ethical complaint Undering an investigation into the situation and wondering if the socialist candidate has received poor assistance obtaining subsidized housing.

“The pathetic attempts of right-wing reflection groups and Maga billionaires to distract from Zohran Mamdani’s mission to make NYC more affordable will fail, just as they did in the primary where New Yorkers have rejected Andrew Cuomo with humiliating defeat,” said Mamdani spokesman.

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Jeffries legitimizing Mamdani’s criticism sparked an online step back from users who suggested that Jeffries was wrong to withdraw against Mamdani.

“Starting to think that this guy should not be a leader”, former Democratic editor Alex Bradley Posted on X. “Weak where it matters, not a team player.”

“What a coward”, Michael Koncewicz, Associate Director of the NYU Public Knowledge Institute, Michael Koncewicz Posted on X. “It is deeply embarrassing that Jeffries is a leader of the Democratic Party.”

A Medicite title Jeffries’ comment as having thrown Mamdani “under the bus”.

Cuomo and Mamdani went back and forth with strokes after Cuomo called Mamdani Social media message This has been seen more than 30 million times, calling for Mamdani “to move immediately and restore your affordable accommodation to a non -Lodi family who needs it.”

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat in New York, speaks at a press conference at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, United States, Thursday, February 6, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In the CNBC interview, Jeffries also refused to officially suffer Mamdani, despite his praise of his main performance where he “surpassed” his opponents.

“But now, during the general elections, of course, he will have to demonstrate to a wider electorate, including in many neighborhoods that I represent in Brooklyn, that his ideas can actually be put in reality, and it is the conversation he has with me and with people who are community leaders and residents of the 8th district of the Congress that I serve.”

Fox News Digital Alec Schemmel contributed to this report