{"id":15907,"date":"2025-11-21T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-denounce-horrors-of-socialism-ahead-of-mamdani-trump-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:17:01","slug":"house-votes-to-denounce-horrors-of-socialism-ahead-of-mamdani-trump-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-votes-to-denounce-horrors-of-socialism-ahead-of-mamdani-trump-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to denounce \u2018horrors\u2019 of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House voted 285-98 to approve a resolution condemning the \u201chorrors of socialism\u201d Friday morning, just hours before President Donald Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/21\/mamdanis-meeting-with-trump-comes-with-a-power-disadvantage-00664265\" target=\"_blank\">set to meet<\/a> with New York\u2019s incoming democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the measure. Two others voted present. No Republican voted to oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson and House GOP leaders have decried Mamdani\u2019s election as the next mayor of the country\u2019s largest city, citing his left-wing politics and arguing he is the new, radical face of the Democratic Party. They\u2019ve vowed to make him a centerpiece of their attacks against Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on Capitol Hill have dismissed the Republicans broadsides over Mamdani, and party leaders criticized the GOP-written measure ahead of Friday\u2019s vote, saying it \u201cselectively lists certain despotic leaders and the harms of totalitarian regimes self-labeled as \u2018socialist.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They did not, however, formally recommend a no vote. A swath of moderate Democrats, especially from New York, are uncomfortable with Mamdani\u2019s rise in their party.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over the symbolic measure was derailed for about 10 minutes after Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) verbally attacked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on the floor, accusing her of being a \u201cfriend\u201d of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro despite traveling to the country and seeing the abuses of his regime.<\/p>\n<p>Waters asked for Salazar\u2019s words to be taken down, but Salazer instead withdrew her remarks, allowing the debate to continue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House voted 285-98 to approve a resolution condemning the \u201chorrors of socialism\u201d Friday morning, just hours before President Donald Trump is set to meet with New York\u2019s incoming democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. Eighty-six Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the measure. Two others voted present. No Republican voted to oppose it. Speaker Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}