{"id":198387,"date":"2026-05-21T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:26:18","slug":"obama-meets-mamdani-in-new-york-city-before-reading-to-presc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198387\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to presc&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">The former two-term president and standard-bearer for the Democratic Party has offered to be a <a data-wisiwig-link=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uganda-zohran-mamdani-mayor-election-new-york-d41260eeef2438498a3aa04118fbd2df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"text_$sec cursor_pointer transition-prop_color duration_$fast ease_east-out hover:text_$sec_D hover:duration_$fast hover:ease_east-out hover:transition-prop_color\">sounding board<\/a> for Mamdani, 34, whose star power, youth and progressive agenda has made him stand out in Democratic politics. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Mamdani <a data-wisiwig-link=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-zohran-mamdani-cuomo-mayor-primary-vote-c398b33fe7304287596d64582d326988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"text_$sec cursor_pointer transition-prop_color duration_$fast ease_east-out hover:text_$sec_D hover:duration_$fast hover:ease_east-out hover:transition-prop_color\">took office<\/a> in January after a campaign centered on making New York City a more affordable place to live, centering his agenda on refocusing the vast power of government toward helping the city\u2019s struggling working class.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Mamdani&#8217;s meeting with Obama comes after he has already <a data-wisiwig-link=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-housing-3835daca395dbe46c2f3da2433ec24f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" class=\"text_$sec cursor_pointer transition-prop_color duration_$fast ease_east-out hover:text_$sec_D hover:duration_$fast hover:ease_east-out hover:transition-prop_color\">met twice with Trump<\/a> at the White House in November and February to discuss issues affecting New York City. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Despite those friendly meetings, their relationship has shown signs of strain recently, with Trump posting on Truth Social Thursday that Mamdani was \u201cDESTROYING New York\u201d with his taxing policies and threatened to pull federal funding for the city. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former two-term president and standard-bearer for the Democratic Party has offered to be a sounding board for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-198387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}