Mayor Adams is headed to Washington, D.C. to attend the annual Nationwide Day of Prayer on Thursday, a spokeswoman stated. The bipartisan occasion shall be headlined by President Trump.
“He’s going to represent the city at a very high-profile event,” Kayla Mamelak, Adams’ press secretary, stated late Wednesday shortly after the mayor departed on a flight for the capital.
Adams will attend the Thursday morning Nationwide Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill with Tiffany Raspberry, his deputy mayor of intergovernmental affairs, a staffer from Raspberry’s workplace and Liz Garcia, a spokeswoman for Adams. The town is protecting their lodges and journey as a result of Mamelak stated there’s a “city purpose” to their journey.
The mayor departed New York on Wednesday evening to get to D.C. in time for the 7:30 a.m. breakfast, the place Trump will ship remarks.
Mamelak didn’t say whether or not the mayor can be assembly with Trump or Division of Justice officers whereas in D.C. Adams, who has pleaded not responsible to legal corruption costs, is going through scrutiny for what critics see as an excessively cozy relationship with the Republican president, who stated final 12 months he would contemplate pardoning the mayor.
“Tiffany is working to arrange meetings, if he does meet with anyone from the federal government it’ll be through Tiffany’s office,” Mamelak stated.
The Nationwide Prayer Breakfast is a bipartisan annual occasion sometimes attended by the president and hosted by members of Congress.
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