Finger-pointing and frustration over migrant crisis leads to a total breakdown between White House and NYC mayor

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Posted on 09/26/2024 12:09:35 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

The relationship between President Joe Biden’s White House and Eric Adams began breaking down in private months earlier than previously known – and long before the New York mayor started publicly blasting the president over the migrant crisis in his city.

“There’s no leadership here,” Adams told a group of Biden aides last October in the chief of staff’s office, demanding the president do more to help his city handle a massive influx of migrants.

The issue is one of the most sensitive issues for the White House, and for Biden’s reelection campaign. Intergovernmental affairs director Julie Chávez Rodríguez, chief of staff Ron Klain and Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall bristled. They were doing everything they could at the White House to lead without Congress pitching in, they said. Biden had done more than any previous president and much of what Adams was asking for would either require congressional action or would likely immediately be challenged in court.

It was a moment, which is being reported now for the first time, that prefaced a total breakdown of the relationship between the White House and the mayor’s office. CNN’s conversations with multiple sources revealed the political partnership has devolved into finger-pointing and frustration between Adams, the president, their aides and advocates who complain that the leaders have both been blundering through a response to a crisis that more than one told CNN feels like “playing hot potato with people.”

A year later, Adams has long moved past private bashing of Biden, even headlining a rally on Thursday in Manhattan that slammed the administration’s response arrival of migrants...

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Gee, it only took a year for a "total breakdown" to turn into an indictment? About contributions from many years ago?

1 posted on 09/26/2024 12:09:35 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

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2 posted on 09/26/2024 12:10:25 PM PDT by xoxox

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3 posted on 09/26/2024 12:13:22 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)

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4 posted on 09/26/2024 12:16:11 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)

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5 posted on 09/26/2024 12:17:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

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6 posted on 09/26/2024 12:20:45 PM PDT by Stosh

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Finger-pointing and frustration over migrant crisis how best to overrun America with criminal ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS

7 posted on 09/26/2024 12:21:22 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)

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8 posted on 09/26/2024 12:24:09 PM PDT by fruser1

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