SEC Chair Paul Atkins rips ‘communist’ Zohran Mamdani, NYC pols pushing for ‘control rather than freedom’

Mihaela Chircă

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins ripped Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s progressive agenda on Tuesday, warning that New York’s leaders are “beginning to speak the language of control rather than of freedom.” President Trump’s Wall Street cop did not name the democratic socialist mayor in his keynote address, but left little doubt about his target as he framed the city’s direction as a betrayal of the principles that built American capitalism as the country prepares to celebrate