Under-Towers Ulysses

The Real Story

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, despite entering the encounter from a position of significant weakness. Trump controls federal funding streams vital to the city and has repeatedly threatened to deploy federal resources, enforce immigration crackdown and withhold infrastructure dollars if the incoming mayor pursues policies seen as unfriendly. Mancdani campaigned on affordability and transit improvements, but faces a daunting task and must navigate a fraught relationship with a federal government he sought to challenge.