Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Hochul met Thursday to organize for the chance President Trump might take punitive actions towards New York Metropolis after Mamdani is sworn in seven weeks from now.
For months, Trump threatened to chop federal funding for New York and increase ICE’s presence or deploy the Nationwide Guard within the metropolis within the occasion that Mamdani, a democratic socialist, was elected mayor. Trump routinely known as Mamdani a “communist” whose left-wing agenda would put New York in danger.
Federal brokers conduct an immigration sweep on Canal Avenue within the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Picture/Jake Offenhartz)
“I’m not going to send a lot of money to New York,” Trump stated in mid-October on the White Home. “We’re not going to ruin one of our great cities, because we’ll make that great. We will clean up the crime in about 30 days.”
“It took 12 days to do Washington, DC, so New York is bigger, and Chicago, we’ve already made a lot of progress despite fighting from the government. All of these cities, we want to clean them up,” he added.
Since Mamdani’s Nov. 4 election victory, the Queens-born president has been a bit extra circumspect, although, even saying final week he hopes “it works out for New York” and that he’ll “help him a little bit, maybe.”
From left, President Donald Trump, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani. (Getty Photos)
Nonetheless, Hochul invited Mamdani to her Midtown Manhattan workplace on Thursday afternoon to speak a few vary of matters — together with what Trump would possibly do after Mamdani is inaugurated Jan. 1 because the youngest mayor in metropolis historical past in over a century.
“The Governor and the Mayor-elect discussed the possibility that the federal government would surge ICE and/or National Guard to New York City,” stated a readout of the assembly offered by Mamdani’s transition workforce.
“Both agreed that New York is safe and that a federal surge would not improve public safety, especially given continued declines in crime and the governor’s investments in subway safety. State officials provided an update on ongoing preparedness efforts should the federal government target New York, and the mayor-elect’s team will formally join these coordinated efforts.”
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout a press convention outdoors of the Jacob Okay. Javitz Federal Constructing on August 07, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
Whereas ICE has been detaining women and men throughout New York for months as a part of the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” agenda, the town has not seen the identical stage of confrontation and battle as different elements of the nation, notably Chicago.
The readout of the Mamdani-Hochul assembly stated it lasted about an hour. There was no element on the precise nature of the preparedness efforts they mentioned.
However Politico reported earlier this month that Hochul has for weeks been convening New York enterprise leaders and regulation enforcement officers to sport out how New York would reply within the occasion of assorted Trump-induced situations.
One goal of these conferences has been to nudge enterprise leaders to sign to Trump that it’d be a waste of federal sources to deploy U.S. troops to New York.
Based on the assembly readout, Mamdani and Hochul additionally mentioned different key New York Metropolis points, like childcare and budgeting.
Mamdani stated earlier this week that he plans to talk to Trump earlier than he takes workplace Jan. 1.
In contrast to outgoing Mayor Adams, Mamdani has vowed to battle Trump, particularly over his “mass deportation” efforts concentrating on undocumented New Yorkers.
