Zohran Mamdani’s New ‘Free’
Childcare Program is Going to Cost $60,000
Per Child
Gateway Pundit,
by
Mike LaChance
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
3/31/2026 4:47:39 AM
Are you sitting down? This is shocking news.
It turns out that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new ‘free’ childcare program isn’t free at all. In fact, it’s going to cost $60,000 – Per child. Of course, it’ll be free for the people who get the service, but not for the taxpayers who are funding it.
This is the shell game that is always played by leftists. Nothing is free and they know it. Someone always pays.
Oh and by the way, this is just the rollout of the program. You know it will cost more down the road.The cost of “free” child care is soaring.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/31/2026 5:18:22 AM (No. 2086898)
Mamdani knows how to spend the money. He just doesn't know how to make the money.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/31/2026 5:18:31 AM (No. 2086899)
He's a muslim, therefore a liar. No news.
Went to Bronx Science, so he's at least smart enough to know the difference. So he's a liar.
And dangerous. Of course.
21 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/31/2026 7:07:59 AM (No. 2086932)
Not to worry. All major businesses and well to do residents are on their way out of NY. The Governor is a panic mode. NYC will or is becoming a third world country.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cindiana 3/31/2026 7:33:26 AM (No. 2086938)
Free prayer rugs for nap time?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/31/2026 7:59:44 AM (No. 2086953)
What's shocking about it.? It's a New York Democrat run program.
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/31/2026 8:09:08 AM (No. 2086959)
Caring for a couple of kids would earn you a nice income but you would have to move to New York as well as put up with the kids. No thanks.
7 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/31/2026 8:59:37 AM (No. 2086980)
Dem/Socialists are very good at spending other people's money and handing out goodies to get elected. The first result is that the government goes into debt. Then, to "fix" the debt crisis, taxes must be raised. Then people paying taxes get ticked off and in the next election, the dems/Socialists get voted out. If the electorate is really stupid, i.e. mostly dems, they leave the spenders in office and you become like California, on a road to the bottom and financial collapse.
Cities overspend, their state bails them out, the federal government bails out the states, they all collapse. The chain can be broken at any point and pressure is put on the previous link to stop overspending.
Even the federal government can be pressured. They sell Treasury notes to finance the deficit. Roughly 80% is held by the public, including individuals, businesses, banks, insurance companies, and foreign governments. If the federal financial crisis gets bad enough, people will stop buying the notes and the whole deficit spending game grinds to a halt.
Socialism always collapses unless the people are oppressed to the point where, even when the goodies dry up, they have no choice. Then it is just slavery to the state.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 3/31/2026 9:05:45 AM (No. 2086982)
Anyone look at the amount of money that's spent on educating a child? Last I saw, it was 20 grand more per child to do that. So, free childcare at 60 grand a child is a bargain.
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/31/2026 9:16:16 AM (No. 2086984)
Imagine what the daycare workers will look like - green hair, pierced nipples, devil tattoos on their necks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 3/31/2026 10:02:27 AM (No. 2086996)
So, if 10 kids are in a room it would cost $600,000 a year to take care of them. I will do it for half price with another helper. This is insane, That mayor needs to be committed.
9 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/31/2026 10:15:35 AM (No. 2087007)
Nothing is free, there is always a cost! Remember the voters of New York City essentially voted for the Mandani socialist policies. Trump and his crew should ensure that no federal money is used to fund those Mandan’s socialist policies.
9 people like this.
Desi nepo boy-wonder has never held a real job and knows nothing about managing money.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 3/31/2026 10:50:27 AM (No. 2087020)
Hey New Yawk...enjoy the suck...you voted it in, so.....
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/31/2026 11:07:54 AM (No. 2087028)
Sixty thousand per child in daycare? Is that per year? We may have to lear how to get into that racket, establish multiple daycare centers on each floor of our high rise apartment building, and watch that money flood in. Democrats will demand their cut, their vig, and look the other way. The OPM (other people's money) in NYC won't last for long. Then, what will they do after running the big money and the big employers out of the state? iMadman will soon be regarded, almost universally, as a menace with dimples. Whether that is because of evil intent or Marxist-Islamist brain rot isn't important. He's some kind of a loser. De-naturalize him and his parents, and deport them all back to Uganda.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/31/2026 11:45:25 AM (No. 2087050)
Nothing is ever free.
NOTHING.
EVER.
5 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/31/2026 1:50:58 PM (No. 2087107)
Childcare? Childcare?
Another communist bastardization of our beautiful language. The correct word is "babysitting." The commies want the rest of us to pay for their babysitters.
Anyone who uses the word "childcare" - - is a useful idiot for the communists.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/31/2026 2:27:39 PM (No. 2087118)
For NYC employees only. Just another perk for working for the government. I'll bet a lot of biological fathers are very happy about that.
0 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 3/31/2026 2:28:56 PM (No. 2087120)
Is anyone surprised? Mamdani is a Muslim and Commie. These two religions are told to lie to get their way. The Koran specifically tells their adherents to lie to the infidels. This sure is different than the bible that says, "Thou shalt not lie".
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 3/31/2026 4:34:58 PM (No. 2087150)
I wouldn't leave my dog in this dump.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/31/2026 9:10:38 PM (No. 2087269)
Wow! 60,000 per child, per year.
And that's what they're admitting to.... BEFORE the under-the-table Grift and the Fraud!
As Lady Thatcher once said:
"The trouble with Socialism is that Sooner or Later your run out of Other People's Money to spend,"
I wonder how the costs break down.
How much for the teachers, supplies, and direct caretakers, how much for the buildings, how much for the drivers and transportation vehicles, and how much for 'Administrative Overhead'.
I wonder how much the Top Bureaucrats will be paid, and what other compensation they will receive- a City car- and driver, and what other perks- travel costs, meal costs, entertainment costs, conference and 'professional development' costs.
There are more ways to grift money out of a system like this, than there are grains of sand on the beach.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mifla 4/1/2026 9:52:51 AM (No. 2087454)
Let's see how those parents feel about "free" daycare when their kids are messed up by one of NYC's loons who got hired on a DEI pass.
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