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American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New York City
The sanctuary movement in the United States traces back to the 1980s when faith communities and a small set of municipalities began shielding Central American refugees and asserting city-level limits ...
OpenSecrets’ compilations are the primary available source for who the biggest individual and organizational political donors were in the 2024 cycle; its party-level pages list top contributors to the...
Available reporting and FEC-based databases show the financial backbone of Democrats in 2024 came largely from the securities/financial sector, tech and communications, and individual wealthy donors r...
The materials supplied assert that a substantial number of prominent U.S. media companies are or have been led by executives who are Jewish, naming current CEOs and historical figures across broadcast...
Zohran Mamdani drew criticism as a “trust fund socialist” primarily because critics pointed to his family background and assets while he advocated democratic socialist policies; opponents argued that ...
A handful of high‑profile individuals and donor networks recalibrated where and how they spent for 2024: Elon Musk emerged as the single largest individual donor to Republican-aligned spending, longti...
A small group of billionaire philanthropists—most prominently Michael Bloomberg, Reid Hoffman and the late Jim Simons (with his wife Marilyn)—were among the largest individual backers of Democratic-al...
New York City’s municipal politics have been dominated by the Democratic Party for many decades: city government is described as “dominated by the Democratic Party,” and most elected offices and regis...
Donald Trump’s personal and campaign-linked giving is modest compared with many billionaire peers, and recent reporting shows wealthy donors and corporations are major funders of Trump projects and ca...
OpenSecrets is the primary public database tracking which corporations, PACs and wealthy individuals gave to Democratic committees and candidates; its 2024 contributors pages list top donors and note ...
There is no authoritative, sourced count in the provided reporting that lists the exact number of billionaire donors aligned with each party for the 2026 midterms; available coverage documents pattern...
Zohran Mamdani, sworn in as New York City’s mayor in the first minutes of January 1, 2026, is reported by multiple mainstream outlets to be moving into Gracie Mansion in January 2026—effectively when ...
MacKenzie Scott has disclosed roughly $26.3 billion in gifts since 2019 (including a $7.17 billion round in 2025), a scale of giving that — by multiple news tallies — outstrips the lifetime reported d...
Michael Bloomberg is repeatedly identified in the provided reporting as New York’s most active billionaire philanthropist, with Bloomberg Philanthropies widely cited as a top donor and Bloomberg toppi...
New York’s richest billionaires primarily built fortunes in finance—hedge funds, private equity and investing—followed by media, apparel, real estate and consumer goods; multiple lists show finance/in...
Zohran Mamdani campaigns and policy proposals center on reducing in New York City through a package of municipal-level public services and tax changes: (targeting roughly one million rent‑stabilized u...
New York City hosts the largest concentration of billionaires in the world, with multiple sources reporting , led repeatedly by Michael Bloomberg at the top of local rankings. Reporting across 2023–20...
Major billionaires and billionaire-led groups are not uniformly on record as directly supporting or opposing the specific Billionaires Income Tax Act across the documents provided; the available analy...
Open Society Foundations (OSF) is a large, global funder that concentrates on , channeling multibillion-dollar grants to a broad array of civic and rights organizations; its work is often cast as prog...