A judge halts Mamdani's second-home tax, and Steve Fulop takes Varney's chair
The former Jersey City mayor, speaking for New York's big employers, gave Fox Business its third fast-starting video in two days.
Fox BusinessStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 217,907 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (19,027).
Judge BLOCKS Mamdani tax rollout in DRAMATIC setback
Steve Fulop spent more than a decade running Jersey City, across the Hudson. On Fox Business he was talking about New York City's money instead, as chief executive of the Partnership for the City of New York, the group that speaks for many of the city's largest employers.
The occasion was a court ruling. A judge has ordered New York City to scrap the rollout of its wealth tax on second homes, a setback for Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration. Stuart Varney's interview also turns to reports of a smear campaign aimed at the city's chief executives, which Fulop responds to.
Nine hours after it went up, the segment had passed 120,000 views. A Fox Business upload usually gathers about a sixth of that in its whole first day. It follows Larry Kudlow on Iran and Danny Danon on the Tel Aviv-bound flight, as we reported here, so this is the channel's third quick starter in two days. The rest of the October 1 lineup, from Jamieson Greer on tariffs to a new Texas shipbuilding hub, is still counting in the thousands or hundreds.
Fox Business is not the only busy channel of its kind. CNBC Television and Bloomberg Television, both close to it in size, are also running well above their normal daily pace.
Under the video, the comments have less to say about the legal detail than about who might leave town. Texas comes up more than once, so does Governor Kathy Hochul, and one of the most-liked comments goes back to Amazon's abandoned plan to put its second headquarters in New York.
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- Channel
- Fox Business
- Subscribers
- 3,390,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,009,579 (on a normal day: 1,263,531)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 123,556 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 217,907
The numbers
One New York segment is carrying a channel that was already busier than usual.
💡 Test your knowledge
Steve Fulop, Stuart Varney's guest, was previously mayor of which New Jersey city?
Fulop served as mayor of Jersey City from 2013 to 2025.
