By Emily Ngo
New York City Mayor Eric Adams heads to Albany, New York today, while several of his top deputies are in Washington, D.C., all trying to advance his state and federal priorities amid the political backlash from Adams’ criminal conviction.
The campaign in the state and nation’s capitals, a spokeswoman for Adams confirmed to POLITICO, comes as the Democratic mayor warms to the GOP president-elect.
And it comes a day after the city’s Campaign Finance Board voted not to release $4.5 million in state funds to Adams, his closest aide said he expected to be indicted on corruption charges and Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning the mayor in a bribery case.
Today, Adams’ deputy mayor, chief of staff and other envoys will meet with bipartisan members of New York’s congressional delegation to advocate for City Hall’s 2025 agenda, which includes affordable housing programs, eliminating the SALT cap, health care, social services included. and infrastructure funding and immigration reform.
Adams himself is set to meet with New York Governor Cathy Hochul about his support for a proposal to repeal the income tax for hundreds of thousands of working-class New Yorkers.
