US President set to meet New York Mayor at White House

US President Donald Trump is set to meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House. (File Photo)Trump-Mamdani Meeting Live Updates: US President Donald Trump is set to meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House, bringing months of political sniping into a face-to-face encounter in the Oval Office. The visit follows a tense post-election period in which Trump has branded Mamdani, a self-described democratic social, a “commun,” while Mamdani has accused the president of stoking division and undermining the city’s funding.
Trump threatening Democrats: The meeting comes as Trump is facing an escalating political backlash after he accused several Democratic lawmakers of “sedition” and called for them to be arrested and tried for behaviour he claimed could be “punishable death.” Democrats denounced his remarks as dangerous incitement, while the White House insed the president was not calling for executions.Story continues below this ad
What each side wants to achieve: Mamdani said affordability will drive his message. “That’s why everything comes back to making the case for an affordability agenda,” he told reporters in City Hall Park, reported USA Today.
He added: “I will meet with anyone, I will speak to everyone, so long as it can stand to benefit an economic agenda for New Yorkers.”
The mayor-elect has also hired additional lawyers to prepare potential legal challenges to federal action and has pledged that New York will “remain a city of immigrants.”
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