Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha mocked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attempt to promote free child care with YouTuber Ms. Rachel.
In the video posted Sunday, Ms. Rachel, whose legal name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, is seen singing, “the mayor on the bus says hello friends,” when Mamdani jumps into frame and joins in. Mamdani continues to interrupt Ms. Rachel’s singing to bring attention to his policies of free buses and universal child care.
“The good news? We’re winning universal childcare faster than anyone expected. The bad news? Ms. Rachel and I have to find some new song inspiration…” Mamdani captioned the video.
“We will never get that rendition out of our heads. My god, why have you forsaken me? There needs to be a binding resolution that forbids Ms. Rachel from being near any child whatsoever in the name of just being patently cringe on things like this alone,” Concha said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime Monday.
“Who is going to pay for that? The annual cost when you give free child care in a city like New York, the largest city in the country, $6 billion with a ‘b.’ I guess the billionaires and millionaires will pay for that,” Concha added. “The problem is that most of those people are smart, and they will just move out of Mamdani land at this point and go to places like Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, where they don’t have to live under this. It’s crap.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) committed the state to funding the first two years of New York City’s new “2-care” program, which will provide free child care starting at age 2 and expand support for children aged 3 and above. Hochul said the additional investment is $1.7 billion, bringing the fiscal 2027 child care and pre-K investment statewide to $4.5 billion.
Hochul’s press release said her administration has invested a total of $8 billion in child care across the state.
Mamdani campaigned on increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and large corporations to fund his proposed policies, which are expected to have substantial price tags.
