Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted President Donald Trump on Monday at Gracie Mansion, the place they mentioned funding for counterterrorism safety and the deliberate Sunnyside Yard housing improvement, together with immigration enforcement.
In a wide-ranging assembly convened by the mayor whereas the president was in New York Metropolis for the U.N. Normal Meeting, the pair centered on town’s success — regardless of their variations.
“Every time the president and I communicate, it’s about the identical matters: the right way to enhance the lives of New Yorkers and the right way to use the facility of presidency to tackle the price of dwelling disaster, to develop our financial system and to construct a greater, stronger New York,” Mamdani mentioned as he stood alongside Trump within the yard of Gracie Mansion after their assembly.
“I’ve mentioned repeatedly that I’ll work with anybody, it doesn’t matter what social gathering they belong to, regardless of how a lot we could disagree on different matters,” the mayor mentioned.
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The president praised New York’s democratic socialist mayor, saying he’s “off to a begin” towards being a “nice” mayor. They acknowledged their variations, notably over immigration.
Throughout their assembly, which was additionally attended by the mayor’s and president’s chiefs of employees, Trump agreed to ramp up consultations about funding for Sunnyside Yard, which may convey as much as 12,000 new properties constructed over a 190-acre Queens railyard.
“We’ve agreed to arrange a brand new degree of that dialog between our housing and operations workforce at Metropolis Corridor and the White Home workforce,” Mamdani mentioned.
The mission, Trump mentioned, is “going to want numerous federal approvals and doubtless some federal cash to do it. However it’s all the time been a nice location.”
Mamdani Talks Haitians, Short-term Protected Standing
Following a query by The Metropolis Reporter, the president mentioned the 2 leaders additionally mentioned his administration’s choice to revoke Short-term Protected Standing for immigrants from 13 nations, together with Haiti. New York state is house to an estimated 40,000 Haitian TPS holders.
Trump didn’t decide to any adjustments to the revocation, however famous “the mayor feels very strongly about it, and he did convey it up.”
Mamdani mentioned TPS was a “precedence for me, a precedence for our metropolis,” including that he’d “made the case about simply how essential that is to so many New Yorkers, and the way I hear about this not simply from these New Yorkers, not simply from their households but additionally from their pastors, from builders, from executives in healthcare and hospitality.”
He mentioned he spoke straight about Haitian New Yorkers, saying Trump’s energy over their standing “can both ship or deny stability of their lives and the lives of those that love them.”
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Monday marked the third in-person assembly between Trump and Mamdani, a former fierce critic of the president earlier than he was elected to guide New York Metropolis.
The primary two conferences, held shortly after Mamdani was elected final November and once more in February, each befell on the Oval Workplace within the White Home.
The president praised the mayor-elect after their first assembly, saying he felt New York Metropolis — the hometown Trump rejected after altering his residency to Florida — was in good palms with Mamdani.
“I’d really feel very very comfy being in New York and rather more so after the assembly,” Trump mentioned on the time. “The higher he does, the happier I’m.”
Trump mentioned on Monday that he even had a hand in convincing Mamdani to maneuver into the 227-year-old official mayoral residence along with his spouse, Rama Duwaji, throughout their first assembly following his election.
The mayor, he mentioned, was “perhaps having some doubts about shifting in as a result of it’s a little bit on the luxurious aspect, and I mentioned, ‘If you’re the mayor, you must stay there.’”
Trump, who final week banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White Home, remarked on the big variety of reporters overlaying the Gracie Mansion get-together.
