New York City’s experiment with government-run grocery stores is quickly becoming a national political flashpoint.
Zohran Mamdani has promoted the idea of taxpayer-backed grocery stores as a way to offer New Yorkers cheaper food, with the city taking a direct role in how the stores operate and what shoppers pay. Supporters present the proposal as an answer to the frustration Americans feel every time they walk through a supermarket.
But Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council director, offered a very different way of looking at the idea during a Sunday appearance on Fox News.
