{"id":11891,"date":"2026-05-31T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:15:11","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-plans-to-spend-5-2-million-on-his-office-of-mass-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=11891","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani plans to spend $5.2 million on his office of &#8216;mass engagement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Red alert!<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers are on the hook for $5.2 million to pay the swollen salaries of the information ministers in socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s new City Hall propaganda bureau \u2013 a staggering 175% more than first thought, The Post can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s barely been open for business for a month, but the Office of Mass Engagement has already seen ts headcount balloon 186% from 14 to 40, with $5,123,756 earmarked for salaries, according to the city\u2019s recently released 2027 executive budget.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Three workers were seen in the Lower East Side this week canvassing to get people to turn up to rent freeze hearings. <span class=\"credit\">William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The total is more than what city agencies like the Board of Corrections, Community Affairs Unit or Office for People with Disabilities get in their entire budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Post exclusively reported in March the agency had begun hiring for 14 cushy jobs totaling roughly $1.6 million in taxpayer cash, with gigs that included a $150,000 campaign director, whose job description mirrored the work of a political campaign staffer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mamdani is planning to hire an additional 26 comrades by next year, at an average salary of $125,000, based on details in the budget.<\/p>\n<p>Another $30,000 is being set asides for non-staff expenses, new docs reveal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is purely politics at a time when real services are needed,\u201d Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf told The Post. \u201cWe have real deficits and this mayor is spending five million dollars to put 40 political operatives on the payroll. It\u2019s morally incomprehensible . . . It\u2019s outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The office has so far canvassed the Big Apple to get people to turn up to rent-freeze hearings held in May and June. <span class=\"credit\">William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t for anybody\u2019s benefit but the mayor\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The purported purpose of the office is to get New Yorkers involved in policy making, but critics have slammed the move as classic Soviet-era politics \u2014 using taxpayer dough to stifle opposition to his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The budget didn\u2019t reveal the 40 job descriptions. Those hired so far include Commissioner Tascha Van Auken, Mamdani\u2019s campaign field director, and Mohamed Alharbi, the office\u2019s deputy borough director for Queens.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mamdani announced the agency creation on his second day in office. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Workers in the Office of Mass Engagement come on top of the mayor\u2019s own communications team, which is expected to be larger than that of any other mayor in Big Apple history, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani has budgeted $51.8 million for the mayor\u2019s office in 2027, an increase of $7 million from former Mayor Eric Adam\u2019s budget last year.<\/p>\n<p>When he announced its creation, Mamdani claimed the new office would get marginalized communities involved in city government. But so far it\u2019s catered to the mostly white and wealthy DSA base who put him in office.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tascha Van Auken, Zo\u2019s campaign\u2019s field director, was named Commissioner to the Mayor\u2019s Office of Mass Engagement. <span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week, three workers were seen by The Post canvassing the Lower East side to get people to turn up to Rent Guideline Board hearings, ahead of its June vote whether to green light the rent-freeze Mamdani campaigned on, which would impact the 2 million residents of the city\u2019s rent-stabilized apartments.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the office\u2019s first mission, dubbed Organize NYC, recruiting volunteers and doorknocking, using tactics reminiscent of the DSA, which won him the election<\/p>\n<p>Workers have been canvassing since early May in parts of the Bronx, Queens, lower and upper Manhattan and Brooklyn, but not on Staten Island \u2014 though a city spokesperson assured The Post a\u00a0borough representative had been hired and the city\u2019s only Republican stronghold wouldn\u2019t be left out.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mamdani is budgeting $5.2 million for the Office of Mass Engagement in 2027. <span class=\"credit\">James Messerschmidt for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The office\u2019s other roles so far have included a $150,000 deputy director of co-governance, that had language in the job posting that was almost identical to what NYC DSA co-chair Grace Mausser\u00a0called for in her manifesto\u00a0last year, \u201cBuilding Municipal Socialism in New York with DSA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new office\u00a0also drew comparisons to former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who churned out more than 250 promotional videos in his first two years in office.<\/p>\n<p>A City Hall rep told The Post that the office has also made outreach to landlord advocacy groups to testify at the hearings, and claimed the office will not advocate for any specific outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery New Yorker should have a say in the future of their city,\u201d said  Penelope Birnbaum.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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