Mamdani Defends Requiring ID To Shovel Snow: “It’s Federal Law”
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defends the city’s emergency snow shoveling policy that requires applicants ot have two forms of identification while also opposing voter ID.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Your city’s urgently hiring emergency snow shovelers to help remove snow and ice from public areas, offering people $ 30 an hour. House Republicans are criticizing you for requiring workers to bring multiple forms of identification to sign up for that job. They tweeted, quote, let’s get this straight in Zoran Mamdani’s socialist utopia. It takes two forms of ID to shovel snow, but no ID to vote. Make it make sense, unquote. What’s your response to that, sir? NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Well, here in New York City, we follow the law, and it’s federal law to require certain forms of identification in order for someone to actually be paid for this kind of a job. And so that’s what we’re asking for, two forms of identification. It’s a longstanding city program. It’s a longstanding city policy. And thanks to the hard work of DSNY, they’ve expanded their capacity for how many New Yorkers they can supervise at a time, now up to 1,800 per shift. And so these hardworking men and women who’ve signed up over the course of the last few days and last few weeks, they’ve joined the work that sanitation has been doing, and they’re clearing crosswalks, bus stops.
