Mayor Zohran Mamdani is making a show of cutting the budget, with videos of him looking for millions under sofa cushions. He’s pretending he’s leaving no stone unturned to close a $5.4 billion budget gap. Don’t buy it. These are token gestures meant to suggest the city has cut all it can, giving Albany cover to justify what he hopes comes next: Mamdani’s tax hikes on high earners and employers. Sure, cutting low-value government spending deserves some credit, but the problem is that Mamdani’s