Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved swiftly to reshape City Hall, issuing an executive order that revokes all directives signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 — the date of Adams’s indictment.
Mamdani framed the move as a defense of working-class New Yorkers, though he did not provide specific examples of policies affected.
Well that’s the thing about executive orders. If you don’t want it easily undone, then you go through the actual proper channels to meaningfully change the thing.
In theory I 100% agree. But right now our legislatures are typically in gridlock and executive orders are the only way things get done.
If legislative can’t do anything. It shouldn’t be done. Gridlock is no excuse to bypass democratic processes