US EditionMamdani touts productive meeting with Trump on housing
Mamdani secured Trump's support for a $21 billion plan to build 12,000 affordable homes and pressed for the release of detained Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva.
- On Thursday, New York City Mayor Mamdani met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, proposing federal help to finance at least 12,000 housing units.
- Despite campaign rhetoric, Mamdani and Trump have continued communicating and signaled a willingness to cooperate, meeting previously in November, Mamdani posted on X.
- Mamdani's team produced a mock New York Daily News front page with the headline `Trump to City: Let's Build`, and Mamdani posted a photo from the Oval Office showing Trump holding both covers.
- He raised the ICE detention of Columbia student Elmina `Ellie` Aghayeva, and shortly after, Trump called to say she would be released `imminently`; Mamdani also gave Trump and Susie Wiles a list of four other detained students.
- This signals pragmatic cross-party cooperation on housing and affordability as Thursday's meeting highlighted an unlikely working relationship between Mamdani and Trump and a potential major federal housing investment in New York City.
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Mamdani Says Trump Is ‘Interested’ in His NYC Housing Project Pitch
Seth Wenig/APNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday said that President Donald Trump was “interested in the idea of working together” on the New York City housing project he pitched to him when they met at the White House on Thursday.The project, Mamdani said, is aimed at constructing 12,000 new homes in the Queens neighborhood of Sunnyside. After the White House meeting, Mamdani characterized his conversation with the president as product…
Zohran Mamdani sat down with Trump, and somehow walked out having freed a Columbia student straight from ICE detention
Columbia University student Ellie Aghayeva, who was detained by federal immigration agents, was released hours later after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised her case directly with President Donald Trump during a meeting. Trump agreed to her release shortly after. Mamdani shared the news on X, saying he brought up the arrest during an unrelated meeting with the president. Soon after, Aghayeva posted on Instagram: “I am safe and okay,” add…
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