In the hours leading up to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s first meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution condemning what it termed the “horrors of socialism.”

The measure, introduced weeks earlier but brought to a vote on Friday, served as a symbolic denunciation of socialist ideology at a moment when one of the nation’s most high-profile democratic socialists was preparing to take office in America’s largest city. The timing underscored the political tensions surrounding Mamdani’s victory, suggesting that national lawmakers were eager to reassert ideological boundaries even as New York City moved in a distinctly progressive direction. CBS News reported that Republicans framed the vote as a moral and ideological necessity, intended to reaffirm the nation’s commitment to capitalism and liberal democracy.