He started on the campaign trail saying, look what they doing to that mayor in the city of New York, because he knew what happened to him. And when I went to Florida, I was the mayor of the city of New York. Any mayor that is refusing to interact with the President of the United States to deliver services to his city, particularly New York, when we were going through a very serious economic challenge with the migrants and asylum seekers that cost us $7 billion under the previous administration. I had a responsibility to sit down with the incoming president. Like Governor Hoku went to meet with the president several times, and other city officials and other municipalities did the same thing. (58:44–59:03)
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Asserts that New York faced a $7 billion economic challenge due to migrants and asylum seekers under the previous administration.
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