Mayor Eric Adams insisted his heat relationship with President Trump is benefitting New York Metropolis. Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
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Mayor Eric Adams insisted on Tuesday that President Trump is “someone that’s finally listening” to him on combating the town’s migrant disaster, citing it for instance of how he believes their heat relationship is benefiting the Large Apple.
Adams insisted that his cozy relationship with Trump has benefited the town by resulting in a dramatic lower within the variety of newly arrived migrants and collaboration with federal immigration authorities to go after migrants who commit violent crimes within the 5 boroughs.
However when confronted with questions on Trump’s newest clawback of the town’s migrant help, Adams attacked the motion with out particularly criticizing the president for taking it.
“We’re getting things that I need and we’re going to fight if we believe that money is getting recalled back from us in a real way,” Adams mentioned. “We’re getting cooperation.”
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, middle, through the sixtieth presidential inauguration in Emancipation Corridor of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.Al Drago/Pool by way of REUTERS
Adams has railed in opposition to the previous Biden administration for permitting effectively over $200,000 newly arrived migrants to move into the town since 2022 and leaving it to pay many of the over $7 billion tab.
Congress, beneath Biden, allotted roughly $233 million to the town as reimbursement for a few of what it spent on sheltering and offering for migrants, however Adams has steadily complained that the feds ought to have coated way more of the invoice.
The mayor has continued to slam Biden for not reimbursing the town for practically sufficient of the $7 billion it spent on the migrant disaster even since Trump’s administration took over in late January somewhat than criticizing the present president for clawing again what little help it did obtain beneath his predecessor.
“Let’s be clear on our math: They’re trying to claw back $200 million, and we are fighting for that $200 million,” he mentioned. “But then let’s look at $7 billion we lost in the previous administration.”
Adams’ remarks continued a development of him refusing to criticize Trump, even when the president has taken actions that negatively influence the town. He maintained that whereas Democrats offended over Trump’s re-election need him to struggle the president, that isn’t one thing he’s occupied with doing.
“We need to be honest with that fact that there’s some people who are just angry because the election did turn off the way they want, and because of that, they just want this verbal war,” he mentioned. “I don’t want a verbal war. I want to be able to produce for our city.”
Mayor Eric Adams insisted on Tuesday that President Trump is “someone that’s finally listening” to him on combating the town’s migrant disaster, citing their heat relationship for instance of how he believes it is benefiting the Large Apple.REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Picture
The mayor’s feedback come practically every week after Trump’s Justice Division succeeded in getting his federal corruption expenses dismissed with prejudice — which means they can’t be introduced again.
The DOJ’s transfer to scuttle the case adopted months of Adams refusing to go after Trump and expressing a willingness to work with him. He additionally met with Trump on the president’s Palm Seashore golf course just a few days earlier than he took workplace and attended Trump’s inauguration on the final minute.
The federal decide who threw out Adams’ case, Dale Ho, in his ruling appeared to agree with allegations that the mayor’s lawyer traded his cooperation with implementing Trump’s immigration agenda for the president to drop his expenses. Ho wrote: “Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.”
Because the Justice Division filed a movement to dismiss Adams’ case, he has met and appeared on TV with Trump’s “Border Czar” Tom Homan and pledged to challenge an government order permitting federal immigration authorities to function on Rikers Island as soon as once more.
Nonetheless, Adams argued there may be “no connection” between his cooperation with Trump’s immigration crackdown and the dismissal of his case.
“I don’t even know the connection between charges and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement),” Adams mentioned.
