Kayleigh McEnany criticized the New York City administration’s handling of recent indoor deaths, pointing to what she described as a dismissive response and a refusal to release certain details.
Referencing reporting from the New York Post, McEnany said, “The thermia in their homes.”
She continued, “And if that were not bad enough, here’s how his office is responding to the tragedy the New York Post reporting quote, they did not die on city property, so we are not releasing said a senior spokesperson.”
McEnany added that the spokesperson indicated “that they would not release the number of individuals in those names.”
She clarified, “They released the number, not the names, I should say.”
She noted that the information came “after the post repeatedly pressed for basic details about the newly revealed indoor deaths.”
McEnany then cited another line from the administration: “people die in their homes all the time.”
Turning to the political implications, McEnany said, “Joining me now is former Republican New York City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli.”
She added, “somehow, I think if a Republican mayor, hey, if a Republican president said people die in their homes all the time, it would not be received well, and it might lead many CNN and MSNBC news cycles.”
Borelli responded directly. “Oh, they would lose their minds,” he said.
“They would be on top of this day and night coverage how crass and dismissive that press secretary was.”
He added, “and by the way, the case is sort of on their side.”
Borelli said, “There is not much a city can do when people are actually in their homes to prevent this sort of thing.”
He then shifted to broader policy concerns.
“The bigger problem for the Mamdani administration, and really what has become sort of the first scratch on the golden calf of socialism, is that he changed this outdoor policy where they refused to confine people who don’t want to go into shelters, even though it was sub zero temperatures outside.”
Borelli described the change as ideological.
“This was a socialist policy, a progressive policy that he implemented, and now we see that it’s an abject failure.”
He called for action. “They have to reverse course,” Borelli said.
“They have to accept the fact that it’s not all rainbows and sprinkles, that occasionally you have to do what you don’t want to do, and use the police, use health authority of the cities to put people in proper shelters.”
As the exchange wrapped up, McEnany offered a final assessment: “The first crack in socialism.”
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