Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday pledged to “fight like hell” to ensure President Trump doesn’t make good on his threats to freeze more federal funding for New York City if Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor.

The governor, who endorsed the democratic socialist Mamdani last month, said that she will remind Trump — a native New Yorker born and raised in Queens — that hurting the city will have consequences for the rest of the country as well. She was responding to the president’s comments on Tuesday that he “wouldn’t be generous with a communist because it’s like throwing money out the window” — again falsely labeling Mamdani as a communist.