The other big story happening today in almost every off-year election, in almost every primary, you have a socialist against a Democrat, a liberal Democrat. And we saw in New Jersey the socialists won the primary. We saw in New York City a socialist won over an established liberal like Andrew Cuomo. We saw that same thing in Seattle. And you almost had a socialist win in Minneapolis with that Somali who came out of nowhere to give Fry a run for his money, who's a terrible mayor.
With us right now is Nate Foy. Nate, yesterday you spent a lot of your time trying to make sense of Mondami's policies. He laid out his budget almost in a PowerPoint presentation and said, there's not enough money. I got to raise taxes. Not understanding that we're already 49th in terms of per capita tax taxed in the area.
It doesn't seem to bother him. Yeah, a lot of people are saying, you know, why don't you look for areas to cut spending rather than find more tax revenue when you're already taxing the hell out of everybody in New York. A 9.5% property tax increase would really hit a lot of middle class. Earners, which a lot of people would say is exactly the opposite of why they voted for Mom Donnie. He's supposed to help people who are struggling financially.
And this would hit not only homeowners, but also renters because the cost gets passed down.
So, really, everybody thinks of New York and the Uber-rich in New York, which, by the way, people making over a million dollars pay like half of the income tax in New York. They're going to leave, which is going to dry up the tax revenue, which is going to create a bigger problem. We already have a $5.4 billion deficit over the next two years, and that's what Mom Donnie's trying to fix. A lot of people say that this is not the way to go about it. And that's not a Republican criticism.
That's bipartisan because he needs city council to actually do this. This is the only major tax that he can increase without state approval. And Hochul's in an election year. She's pushing back on raising income taxes and corporate taxes.
So this is the only thing that he feels he can do to gain leverage. But even Democrats on city council came out and they're like, this is a non-starter for us. We can't support this. Oh, yeah, because you're already losing everyone to Texas. And now Florida.
And on a separate note, I know I'd say Boeing is now moving out of Virginia because their taxes are going up. They're going to St. Louis. And then you hear about Elon Musk has already left California. And the Wonder JP Morgan has more of their employees in Dallas than they do in New York City with this brand new building right on 47th Street.
But I want you to hear Kathy Hochul yesterday to the question, are you going to raise taxes? She's a terrible governor here in New York. CUP 51. My position is clear. Yeah.
My position is very clear. I have said that I am a partner of the mayor's. We just allocated $1.5 billion to help them with their financial struggles. This is early in the process. It is his preliminary budget.
And what I would say is, you know, there's other recourses to follow. I don't support a property tax increase on New Yorkers, and I'm not wavering from my position that I don't want to drive more people out of our state by increasing taxes from what is already a high-tax state. I'm the one who's trying to cut taxes. But you saw AOC overseas in Munich. She said we have to have a wealth tax.
She goes, there's no even debate about it. And you see what's happening in California. They're going to put in that, they're going to vote on a billionaires tax.
So the billionaires are leaving. Zuckerberg just went to Miami two weeks ago. This is a fascinating issue. Yeah, and I think it was maybe 10 days ago or so that I covered a Carnegie Mellon study or a professor at Carnegie Mellon put out this study through the Redistrict Network where based on the projection. With the population trends and how they've been going.
In 2030, if people keep leaving New York and California, I believe California will lose four congressional seats, New York will lose two, and Texas and Florida will be picking them up.
So, this would only exacerbate that phenomenon that we're seeing.
So, yeah, I mean, it's just common sense, right? The people who have the greatest ability to leave and to move somewhere else are the super affluent people and the people who have the means to do it.
So, if you're going to. Tax the people who are already, you know, providing 50% of the income tax in New York City, even more, they're going to say, I'm late. And it's worse in Massachusetts because they're saying the weather's even worse in Massachusetts. That's where you're from, right? Yeah.
People are getting out of there. The weather's terrible. The Red Sox, I guess, aren't even that good anymore. The Patriots came back, but you know, the Red Sox aren't even spending anymore. We're acting like a mid-market team.
It's crazy. I know what's going on, but look at the Yankees in the offseason. They did almost nothing. But then you, um, and then you have the Patriots who are coming back.
So, I mean, that's good. But for the most part, you have a situation where people go, why do I want to deal with this? In Boston, you just re-elected extremely liberal mayor wants nothing to do with cracking down illegal immigration. This is Ainslie Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.
A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at Foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. But back to New York for a second. They thought, even though crime is down, Mondami.
Now, he will say he's proposing cutting the NYP budget, canceling 5,000 new officer hires. Even though they just lost 300 last month, they continue to face officer shortfalls. And now, instead of having 35,000 officers, they want to grow to 40,000 officers, they're dropping to 33,000.
So, again, let's cut the cops. And when it comes to the homeless encampments, Mondami realizing when 19 or 20 people die of hypothermia, that he's now allowing encampments to get cleared. But you know who's going to do it? The social services. Good luck with that.
Have you seen how violent some of those homeless are? You don't want cops doing that?
Well, and you saw the story of the guy who was suffering from schizophrenia, who charged at the NYPD officer with a knife. And then the NYPD officer backs up, closes a door in between him and the guy with the knife. He pushes through the door the whole time. The officer is yelling, drop the knife. He doesn't.
He shoots him four times. The guy's recovering in the hospital. He's being charged with assault. And Mamdani came out and was like, he shouldn't be.
So apparently, Mom Dani is saying charging at a police officer with a knife, there's no crime there. Because he had a psychological problem. You need a social worker. He wants the Department of Community Safety to handle these calls. Nate, do you think that they're getting, do you think these guys become social workers to stop people to take knives away from six foot four inch angry schizophrenics?
Yeah. It is a recipe for failure. Yeah. Do you know where Madame did? He visited the attacker in the hospital.
Have you ever heard of that in your life? Yeah. As mayor, you visit the attacker. You don't visit the cops. Yeah.
Yeah, so you have the public safety issue, and then, you know, there's been some bad incidents on the subway in the past few weeks, and it's early in the year. Anti-Semitism, when this one kid with a yarmulke got attacked by three guys because he's Jewish. Yeah. I didn't hear anything from him on that. Yeah.
Yeah. The NYPD said it's early in the year to be, you know, really reading into trends, but it's starting. And I, what, to eight weeks? of Mom Dani, so we'll keep watching it.
So Nate's covering a lot of this stuff in New York. You're going to be going off to London with the Prince Andrew. Before we get into the stunning news that he was arrested today, a member of the royal family, last thing is on Columbia University, they decided to have somewhat of a job fair, and ICE was coming on campus in order to say, hey, join ICE. And the students started protesting like crazy, and now they rescinded the invitation to bring ICE on an ICE recruiter on campus. Still left-wing bastion.
Yeah, I mean, we saw that time and time again. We've seen it for years now.
So honestly, that's not much of a surprise. With the protests that we've seen on campus and the encampment.
So, yeah, unfortunately, some progress has been made on that front, but not as much as we'd like to.
So, the stunning news this morning about 4:40, 5:45, it looks like, as you know, Prince Andrew, no longer Prince Andrew, was in all over the Epstein files. Why wouldn't he be? They were best friends, wingmen for each other. He was mentioned 76 times in the first release of Epstein files. He was arrested for suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Allegedly, this isn't even about the teen rape or sex or whatever it is. He allegedly forwarded trade documents to Jeffrey Epstein, an international financier. Do you believe this guy? Yeah, I mean, we'll have to see exactly what the allegation is because, as you mentioned, so far the details are reported, but not exactly confirmed with exactly what the allegations are against him. But it's supposedly about sharing information with Epstein.
As we were talking about, the fallout in Britain is much more than what we're seeing in the United States from the Epstein files. Yeah, I mean, that's just it. When Trump came out and said, you know, you release these files, there's a lot of people who are going to be hit by it, some of which are innocent. For example, Sarah Ferguson took a free plane ride with Epstein and her two kids and flew from London to Miami. She's all over the files.
So RFK said that he flew with his daughter to Utah on some environmental cause. He's in the files. People are going to go, RFK's in the. He's just taken this guy was in the international. He was a philanthropist to a degree.
He knew everybody everywhere, especially Florida and New York City. And now you have another million pages that are going to come out. The carnage is everywhere. Bill Gates has just been forced to pull back from an India AI conference. He got to India and they said, don't come.
Bill Gates is all over these files. Yeah. Yeah. You wonder, you know, I don't want to say that you wonder if it's intentional, but it's really difficult to understand what's real and what's fake because there definitely are real claims mixed in there, and then there are definitely false claims. And because you have these false claims mixed in, it's really hard to know exactly what to believe with these files.
So, you know, we need to do our job as journalists and reporters to keep digging and figure it out. And then also, you know, I think a lot of people here domestically would hope that the FBI is following up, if not with arrest, at least with interviews, just to, you know, certain people have been caught. lying about their affiliation with Epstein based off the the the Coward Luttnick? Yes. Just just interview him.
Why? Why did you lie about it? And that doesn't mean that a crime was committed necessarily. But Interviews should be happening and um You know, I think some people would say that we're not getting at least the transparent interviews that a lot of people would want. Yeah, it's going to drag on forever, but I just find it fascinating that nobody was asking for these files when Joe Biden was in office.
They need the files when Trump's in office. Bottom line is, we all knew they knew each other. He was a finance guy in Palm Beach, and Trump was a real estate guy in Palm Beach. They went to the same parties. We weren't invited, thankfully.
We're not invited to the billionaire parties, but they hung out, then they invest, and then someone gets out, like William Burns, the CIA director. He's in the files. Why is he in the files?
Well, when he got out into the private sector, they said, You should meet with Jeffrey Epstein. He'll be able to connect you with a job.
Next thing you know, he pops up there having dinner with him, and he's besmirched now.
So that's what Trump was talking about. Like, this has got to be, there's a sensitive side to this. For sure. And he knows all these guys, so I'm sure he has a good read on who didn't do anything criminal or wrong. And he's probably trying to.
To protect people that he knows are innocent.
So, Nate, you were perfectly happy in Fort Myers. Do you resent being brought into this dysfunctional vortex here in New York City in Fox News? You were so happy there with the beautiful weather. I'll tell you what, when I was in Fort Myers, and I hope someone in Fort Myers is listening now, I loved it when I was there, but I was looking at what's next the whole time, and I knew that I wanted to come here.
So, this is a dream come true. And no, I don't regret anything. I'm so blessed and grateful to be here, but I do regret not appreciating my time in Fort Myers more while I was there. Because now I look back on it, and it is such a great life down there. I was at the beach every single weekend.
Everything's so cheap, the people are great. It's such a great place. It's forever going to be like a second home for me. But with my goals and wanting to grow as a person and a professional, coming here was always the plan. And I wouldn't trade it for that.
Yeah, we were there over the weekend. The people at Fort Myers are fantastic. And the arena was great. The theater, I should say, was great. But they're just busting at the seams, but they're still suffering the after effects of that hurricane.
Yeah. But honestly, they've done pretty well. I remember DeSantis put up that bridge that got taken out. Within like 30 days. Yeah, within 30 days.
It was insane how quickly he put it up. Fort Myers Beach got crushed. I actually haven't been back since I think September after the hurricane. But I think it's kind of sad because you lose a lot of the history. But it also does present an opportunity to sort of make it better.
Yeah. And grid it out the right way. Yeah. Gradual growth. A lot of times you really don't think big.
You're just watching to see what's going to grow. But now you got a chance to start fresh. Nate Foury, thanks so much. I know you're off to England.
Next time I hear your report, it'll be about Prince Andrew. I think I'll be on with you guys tomorrow morning. I'm going to okay that. Don't take it for granted until I see the paperwork and I make sure it's okay. All right, get on that bite.
Nate Foury, thanks so much.
