By Emily Ngo
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is heading today to Albany, New York, while several of his top deputies are due in Washington, all seeking to advance Adams’ state and federal priorities amid the political backlash of his criminal indictment.
The outreach in the state and nation’s capitals, confirmed to POLITICO by a spokesperson for Adams, comes as the Democratic mayor warms to the GOP president-elect.
And it comes a day after the city’s Campaign Finance Board voted to deny Adams $4.5 million in public funds, his closest aide disclosed she expects to be indicted on alleged corruption charges and Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning the mayor in his bribery case.
Today, Adams’ deputy mayor, chief of staff and other envoys are slated to meet with bipartisan members of the New York congressional delegation to advocate for City Hall’s 2025 agenda, which includes affordable housing programs, removing the SALT cap, health care, social services and infrastructure funding and immigration reform.
Adams himself is set to meet with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on his support for a proposal to eliminate income tax for hundreds of thousands of working-class New Yorkers.