Mayor Eric Adams to meet with Trump at White House to discuss 'NYC priorities'

Josephine Stratman and Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News on May 9, 2025

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Mayor Eric Adams is slated to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon to “discuss New York City priorities,” his office announced.

The meeting is expected to last just 30 minutes, a source briefed on the matter told the Daily News. Among other issues, the source said Adams plans to talk to Trump about a need to secure more federal money for the city, including for its Emergency Management agency, which could face serious funding shortfalls due to the president’s push to slash federal funding across the board.

In a video shot from his seat on the plane bound for the capital, Adams said he and Trump planned “to go over some important items that impact the city.” “We’re looking forward to finding ways that we can collaborate together to address infrastructure and other funding items,” he said in the video posted on X.

The mayor’s friendly relationship with Trump has been the subject of enormous scrutiny after the president’s Department of Justice stepped in earlier this year to get his federal corruption case dismissed.

The mayor, who denies a quid pro quo with Trump, dropped out of June’s Democratic mayoral primary shortly after the unusual dismissal and is instead seeking reelection as an independent candidate in November’s general election.

White House spokespeople did not immediately return requests for comment.

Tiffany Raspberry, deputy mayor for intergovernmental affairs, will also be at the meeting, slated for 3 p.m. at the White House, according to Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak.

Mamelak also noted that Gov. Hochul has traveled to D.C. to meet with the president.

Trump’s Department of Justice secured the dismissal last month, after they discussed with Adams and his legal team how dropping the case should pave the way for Adams to help the Trump administration with its efforts to target undocumented New Yorkers for “mass deportations.”

The mayor has consistently said he wants to “work, not war” with the president.

The White House sit-down was scheduled to take place just two hours before a deadline by which Trump’s Department of Justice must release search warrant materials and other sealed records from Adams’ federal corruption case.

The judge presiding over the since-dismissed case initially ordered Trump’s DOJ to release the materials last week, but the department blew the deadline and got an extension until 5 p.m. Friday.

It’s unclear what the sealed materials will show, but public attention in the records have been high in light of the controversial dismissal of the mayor’s indictment.