{"id":188385,"date":"2026-04-07T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:37:10","slug":"doj-official-says-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdanis-racial-equity-report-sounds-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188385\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ official says NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s racial equity report &#8216;sounds fishy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is reviewing a \u201cracial equity\u201d plan released by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/snubbed-by-mamdani-holocaust-survivor-hoping-for-passover-miracle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> \u2014 with a top Department of Justice official calling the city\u2019s proposal \u201cfishy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani on Monday unveiled the long-delayed \u201cpreliminary citywide racial equity plan,\u201d which found that roughly 200,000 black New Yorkers were forced out of the Big Apple between 2000 and 2020 because they could no longer afford day-to-day expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner called it \u201cthe first step in developing a whole-of-government approach to tackling that reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.53293413;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39014264\" width=\"904\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/announced-release-report-detailing-racial-125110088.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Mamdani announcing the release of a report detailing racial and equity disparities in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-39014264\"  \/>The \u201cpreliminary citywide racial equity plan\u201d was unveiled by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a plan that lays out these first steps to solve decades of neglect and discrimination, and it places the work of 45 city agencies within a singular framework,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The report was legally mandated under a 2022 voter referendum, but ex-Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly pushed back its release.<\/p>\n<p>It now comes as President Trump\u2019s admin targets diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in Democrat-led states like New York.<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the DOJ, said her team was reviewing the proposal.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39014385\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/democrat-new-york-city-meet-115980756.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump shakes hands with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office.\" class=\"wp-image-39014385\"  \/>President Trump\u2019s admin is targeting DEI initiatives in Democrat-led states like New York. Yuri Gripas \u2013 Pool via CNP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSounds fishy\/illegal. Will review!\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is reviewing a \u201cracial equity\u201d plan released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u2014 with a top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,10595,57,9,56,63,65,64,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-188385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-equality","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}