One more said Ingraham’s comments were “as gaslighting as it gets.” Someone else tweeted, “Amazing… no shame.”<\/p>\n
Mamdani, who will take office on January 1, will become NYC’s youngest mayor in more than a century.<\/p>\n
He now faces the task of implementing his sweeping affordability agenda, while taking charge of the largest police department, sanitation department and school system in the country.<\/p>\n
Among his campaign’s promises are free child care, free city bus service, city-run grocery stores and a new Department of Community Safety that would expand on an existing city initiative that sends mental health care workers, rather than police, to handle certain emergency calls.<\/p>\n
Though he has framed his election as a break from the political mold, his transition team includes familiar faces from the previous two mayoral administrations.<\/p>\n
Basil Smikle, a Democratic political strategist and Columbia University professor, said the broad knowledge base of Mamdani’s new hires gives the mayor-elect an “opportunity to assuage the concerns about his governance.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The mayor-elect has already faced scrutiny from national Republicans, including Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to cut federal funding to the city if Mamdani won.<\/p>\n
As Mamdani on Wednesday described his goal of “Trump-proofing” the city, he also said he was open to having conversations with the president about the “ways that we can work together to serve New Yorkers.”<\/p>\n
That could mean discussing the cost of living or the effect of cuts to the SNAP food aid program amid the federal government shutdown, Mamdani suggested.<\/p>\n
“New Yorkers are facing twin crises in this moment: an authoritarian administration and an affordability crisis,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
At a news conference Wednesday, Trump appeared somewhat open to the idea of working with the incoming mayor.<\/p>\n
“We’ll help him,” the president said. “We want New York to be successful. A little bit, maybe.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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