On the heels of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces his plans to end the city’s migrant food voucher program and plans to work with Trump’s administration in 2025.
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On Wednesday (November 6), former President Donald Trump was officially elected as the 47th president of the United States over Kamala Harris.
On Thursday (November 7), NYC Mayor Eric Adams joined ABC 7 Eyewitness News to discuss his plans for New York City and its residents — which include ending the city’s migrant food voucher program and working with the Donald Trump administration in 2025.
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Speaking on the ending of the migrant food voucher program, New York City Mayor Eric Adams told ABC 7, “It was an emergency contract for a one year. It was in place for one year and now we have moved away from emergency response because we have had a constant decrease in our population, and now we’re going to the procurement process that we do now for food.”
He continued, “We’ve been successful with that program. We brought down food waste and we were able to get several thousand individuals to have culturally sensitive food, at the same. It was successful for the time being. It was an emergency and now we’re moving in another direction.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams also talked about funding for the city and his plans to work with Donald Trump after his 2024 election victory.
Adams said, “I’m here to fight on behalf of the city. You can’t hold your breath and wait 4 years before you start bringing back those resources to the city. We have a new president and I’m going to collaborate with his administration to deal with some pressing issues that we face in our city, particularly around funding. When you look at the billions of dollars that we spent with the migrants and asylum seekers, we got very little help from the federal government and I think it’s imperative that we engage on the right foot and say New York needs infrastructure, affordability, and other big-ticket items.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was then asked if Donald Trump’s presidency would affect his federal case, if he was hoping his charges would be dropped, and if he talked to Trump about his case. He said he hasn’t spoken with Trump and added, “I’ve been extremely clear that I’ve done nothing wrong and I have competent attorneys that are going to handle that case.”
He continued, “My job is to do what I was elected to do and that’s to fight on behalf of New Yorkers, and anyone who conflates the two just really [doesn’t] know who I’ve been for the last 30-plus years as a public servant — from a police officer to an elected official. I’m going to fight and defend this city. This city deserves that and that is what I’m going to continue to do.”
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