Trump-Mamdani dwell updates as incoming NYC mayor and president meet at White Home

The press workplace for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed to CBS Information New York that the mayor-elect and governor spoke previous to Friday’s assembly with Mr. Trump. 

Hochul’s workplace didn’t supply particulars about what the 2 mentioned, however the governor has lengthy pursued a relationship with Mr. Trump on plenty of key points, together with the Gateway Undertaking and the attainable deployment of the Nationwide Guard to the Huge Apple.

The end result of the assembly could possibly be vastly consequential for the way forward for New York Metropolis. There’s so much on the road, from funding for infrastructure tasks to setting parameters round immigration enforcement.

On Oct. 1, the primary day of the federal government shutdown, the White Home froze $18 billion in funding for a pair of New York infrastructure tasks: the Gateway Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway. The president later mentioned the Gateway Tunnel mission was “terminated,” however the final standing of the funding stays unclear.

The White Home has additionally indicated it’s planning to ramp up immigration enforcement in New York. Tom Homan, the White Home border czar, mentioned final week that the administration is “growing enforcement presence in New York Metropolis once more as a result of they seem to be a sanctuary metropolis, and we all know we’ve got a problem.” A Mamdani spokesperson mentioned that the mayor-elect “stays steadfast in his dedication to defending the rights and dignity of each single New Yorker and upholding our sanctuary legal guidelines.”

Maybe most significantly, Mamdani wants federal safety clearance to be briefed on terror threats and different regulation enforcement exercise, a course of that the president may assist pace alongside.

In an interview with Fox Information Radio on Friday morning, the president mentioned he expects the assembly to be “fairly civil” and that he and the incoming mayor will “get alongside positive.”

“He is received a special philosophy, he is just a little bit completely different. I give him lots of credit score for the run. He did a profitable run, and everyone knows that runs should not straightforward,” Mr. Trump mentioned. “However I feel we’ll get alongside positive. Look, we’re searching for the identical factor — we wish to make New York robust, and, , there’s such a special philosophy.”

He added: “He was very good in calling, as . And we’ll have a gathering. I suppose we meet at 3 o’clock immediately. And I feel it may be fairly civil. We’ll discover out.”

Hours earlier than Mamdani’s assembly with Mr. Trump, the Home handed a decision “denouncing the horrors of socialism.” It was a broadly bipartisan vote, 285-98, with 86 Democrats becoming a member of 199 Republicans in voting for the decision. Ninety-eight Democrats opposed the decision, and two voted “current.” No Republicans voted in opposition to it.

Home Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, mentioned in response to a query in regards to the upcoming assembly, “It should be thrilling,” and he known as it “a cheerful coincidence that we simply voted on a socialism decision” within the Home. 

“There is a large, widening chasm between the 2 events with regard to this concept of massive authorities management of everyone’s lives and Marxism,” and he once more mentioned it was “a cheerful coincidence that it coincides with the Marxist mayor’s assembly at White Home.”

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York says she “chatted very briefly” with Mamdani this morning. She mentioned he is additionally spoken with lots of the members of the New York Metropolis delegation and famous his promise to speak to anybody in regards to the metropolis’s affordability points.

“Mayor-elect Mamdani has made clear that he’ll meet with anybody and everybody to deal with New York Metropolis’s affordability disaster,” Ocasio-Cortez informed reporters on the Capitol. “So, I stay up for seeing what the president, , has to say about that.”

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The president has known as Mamdani “my little communist mayor.” Mamdani has vowed to “Trump-proof” New York Metropolis.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, does not have a lot in frequent politically with the Republican president. However he known as the assembly “a chance to make the case for New Yorkers” and mentioned he plans to debate financial safety and public security. 

“I will be prepared for no matter occurs,” Mamdani mentioned. 

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned Thursday that “President Trump is keen to satisfy with anybody and speak to anybody and to attempt to do what’s proper on behalf of the American folks.”

Mamdani used comparable language, saying his crew reached out to arrange the assembly “as a result of I’ll work with anybody to make life extra reasonably priced for the greater than 8.5 million individuals who name this metropolis dwelling.”

However typically, their phrases for one another have been extra combative.

Mr. Trump, who grew up in Queens and constructed his enterprise profession in New York Metropolis, has decried the incoming mayor as “a communist lunatic.” Mamdani has blasted the president’s immigration raids and financial insurance policies.

Learn extra right here about what the 2 males have mentioned about one another.

Mamdani stored his public feedback Friday forward of the assembly to a minimal. 

As a substitute, he posted a photograph on X within the morning displaying him smiling, with a airplane emoji because the caption, as he headed to Washington for the assembly with Mr. Trump:

At a press convention on Thursday, the mayor-elect informed reporters that he plans to spotlight the difficulty of affordability throughout his assembly with the president. 

“I will likely be heading to Washington, D.C., tomorrow to satisfy with President Trump on the White Home. It’s customary for the mayor of this metropolis to satisfy with the White Home, given their mutual reliance,” Mamdani mentioned. “It’s extra crucial than ever, given the nationwide disaster of affordability — one which New Yorkers know very properly throughout these 5 boroughs — and the precise problem many cities are going through with balancing public security in opposition to steps taken by this administration.”

The mayor-elect mentioned his crew reached out to arrange the assembly, “as a result of I’ll work with anybody to make life extra reasonably priced for the greater than 8.5 million individuals who name this metropolis dwelling.”

As for potential disagreements?

“I’ve many disagreements with the president, and I imagine that we must be relentless and pursue all avenues and all conferences that would make our metropolis reasonably priced for each single New Yorker,” he continued. “I intend to make it clear to President Trump that I’ll work with him on any agenda that advantages New Yorkers. If an agenda hurts New Yorkers, I may also be the primary to say so.”

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