New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D) challenged Elon Musk for claiming that people will “die” over his appointment of a non-firefighter as the new head of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).

Elon Musk has publicly criticized the decision by New York City’s next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to pick Lillian Bonsignore as the new chief of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).