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===== - '''His current power''': As a '''New York State Assemblymember''', he helps pass/hear state laws and represents parts of Queens in Albany axios.com<ref>{{cite web|title=axios.com|url=https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/zohran-mamdani-nyc-democrat-mayor-nominee|publisher=axios.com|date=2025-06-25|access-date=2025-11-10}}</ref>. =====
'' '''If he becomes mayor''': He’ll run the city—overseeing the ''NYC municipal government*, with control over budgets, police oversight, local services like sanitation, and city agencies.

So yes, he’s more than “just a local politician”—he’d be leading the '''largest city in the U.S.''', with a roughly '''$100 billion budget''', influence over schools, transit, housing, police, sanitation—and an outsize cultural and economic footprint. But even so, '''his authority would still be confined to New York City''', with '''no military command, no federal lawmaking power''', and no influence over national foreign affairs.