Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Hochul met Thursday to prepare for the possibility President Trump could take punitive actions against New York City after Mamdani is sworn in seven weeks from now.

For months, Trump threatened to cut federal funding for New York and boost ICE’s presence or deploy the National Guard in the city in the event that Mamdani, a democratic socialist, was elected mayor. Trump routinely called Mamdani a “communist” whose left-wing agenda would put New York at risk.

“I’m not going to send a lot of money to New York,” Trump said in mid-October, speaking in the White House according to NBC News. “ 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,

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