There’s a lot of doom and gloom in the news, so leave it to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to add a little levity to the headlines.
On Feb. 5, 2026, Mamdani held a press conference with other city officials to announce an RFI (request for information) and detail aspects of his plan to expand access to child care in New York City. Joining Mamdani on stage were kids from the city’s District 2 pre-k center. Around the same time that Mamdani called his plan “critical in making universal childcare a reality,” a boy from the center squirmed his way in front of the camera and whooped intelligibly.
