Boston Mayor Michelle Wu stated she has no intention to cozy up with President Trump to safe extra favorable remedy for town, after studying of a pleasant White Home assembly between Trump and New York Metropolis’s new socialist mayor.
Not like New York Metropolis’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who met with Trump final Friday, Wu, a progressive Democrat reelected to a second time period earlier this month, stated she wouldn’t settle for an invite to the White Home to fulfill with the Republican president.
“I’m not interested in a bromance with the federal regime,” Wu advised reporters Monday at an unrelated occasion in Jamaica Plain.
Wu, who has been thrust into the nationwide highlight for her defiance of the Trump administration since her March testimony earlier than a Republican-led Congressional oversight committee in protection of town’s sanctuary insurance policies and protections for unlawful immigration, stated she plans to stay to her weapons.
“Every community has their unique and individual contexts, and every city leader, every university, every law firm, has to make their own decisions about how they handle this moment,” Wu stated. “On my part, I am fighting as hard as I possibly can to stop the actions of a federal government that seems intent on attacking its own people.”
Mamdani and leaders of different communities might select to attempt to dealer a stronger working relationship with the Trump administration in mild of threatened federal funding cuts, however Wu stated that’s not the suitable method.
“From my point of view, flattery is not the way,” Wu stated. “Boston residents want us to stand strong on our values and to get things done and to keep moving forward, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.”
Final week’s assembly between Trump and Mamdani, a respective Republican and socialist Democrat, was anticipated to be frosty, however turned out to be remarkably amiable, with each males talking repeatedly of their shared objectives to assist Trump’s hometown slightly than their flamable variations.
Trump, who had previously known as Mamdani a “100% communist lunatic” and a “total nut job,” spoke brazenly of how impressed he was with the person who had known as his administration “authoritarian.”
Wu stated she would solely settle for the same invitation to fulfill with the president on the White Home if he met a listing of her calls for.
“If (the invitation) came with a promise to stop snatching residents illegally off the streets, stop prosecuting his political enemies, stop cutting life-saving research and funding,” Wu stated, “Sure, I would be open to a conversation at that point.”
Materials from the Related Press was used on this report.
