was an aggressive antitrust regulator<\/a> when she led the FTC during Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s presidency. Her appointment is a signal that Mamdani, who has called for tax hikes on the wealthy to pay for policies intended to reduce the cost of living, will continue to push against what he refers to as the \u201coligarchy\u201d when he becomes mayor on January 1.\n <\/p>\n\n Mamdani also previewed the announcement of other \u201cleaders who will implement our agenda,\u201d saying that \u201csome of these people will have familiar names, others will not.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe will cast a wide net,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cWe will speak to the organizers on the front lines of the fight to improve our city government, veterans with proven track records, policy experts from around the country and the world, and working people who know better than anyone what their neighborhoods need.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Mamdani called on his supporters to start donating to his cause again in order to fund \u201ca transition that can meet the moment of preparing for January 1.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere were a few months ago where I told supporters across the city to stop donating, and today I am asking them to start once again,\u201d Mamdani said.\n <\/p>\n
\n He explained that his transition team will require staff, research and infrastructure \u2014 all of which need funding.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd I\u2019m excited for the fact that it will be funded by the very people who brought us to this point, the working people who have been left behind by the politics of the city,\u201d Mamdani added.\n <\/p>\n
\n While he said the White House hasn\u2019t reached out after his win, he said he was open to speaking with President Donald Trump, who has derided him as a \u201ccommunist\u201d and threatened to pull federal funding from his hometown.\n <\/p>\n
\n Mamdani said he is \u201cinterested in having a conversation with President Trump on the ways in which we can work together to serve New Yorkers, whether that be delivering on his campaign promises around cost of living or the many issues that New Yorkers have been sharing with me about the drastic impacts that the legislation that President Trump has ushered through Washington will mean for them and their lives.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI look forward to having those conversations and to making clear that if there is ever anything to be spoken about that could benefit the people of the city, I am ready and willing to speak to anyone about it,\u201d the mayor-elect added.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced an all-female team of co-chairs for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":358239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-358238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115499056856749952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}