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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump met with New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mandani at the White House today. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports on the surprisingly gracious sit-down that came after weeks of heated rhetoric between the two men.
President Trump had threatened to cut funding if Mandani was elected and called him his little communist mayor. Mandani had described himself as Donald Trump's worst nightmare. But on Friday, they were both full of smiles and promises to partner together on lowering the cost of housing and groceries for New Yorkers.
I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help, because I want New York City to be great. Look, I love New York City. It's where I come from. I spent a lot of years there. Now I'm right here.
Both have a mutual interest in playing nice. Mondani wants to protect federal funding for New York City. And Trump is looking to get in on Mondani's affordability message. Franco. Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll resign from Congress on January 5th. Greene rose to prominence as one of President Trump's biggest supporters, but over the past several months, the two have regularly fought, in particular over the release of the Epstein files. In a video announcing a decision, Greene said she was tired of being called traitor and wacky.
I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better. If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by neocons, big pharma, big tech, military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can never ever relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
Greene also said Republicans are likely to lose next year's midterm elections. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is allowing the recently redrawn map of congressional districts in Texas to go into effect, at least for now. It's the latest move in a gerrymandering fight begun by President Trump to try to keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wong tells us, Texas had appealed a lower court order that had blocked that new map from taking effect.
That court found the map's challenges are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. It's because multiples have Republican lawmakers made public statements suggesting they passed it to eliminate existing districts where black and Latino voters together make up the majority. But in Texas's appeal to the Supreme Court, the state claims that lawmakers were not motivated by race and focused instead on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans. If the Supreme Court clears a way for Texas to use the contested map, Republicans may be able to pick up five more seats in the U.S. House. But time is running out to change the map for Texas's midterm election.
The state's candidate filing deadline is in about two weeks. Hansi Lewong, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. Residents of Southern California awoke today to more warnings of possible flash floods and mudslides. The third storm in just over a week hit the region, and officials say the rains could cause mudslides in areas destroyed by recent wildfires. The storms have now moved to the east and south towards Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. This weekend, artists across the country are participating in what they say is creative resistance to authoritarianism. NPR's Anastasia Silkas has our reports.
Fall of Freedom includes more than 600 events across the U.S., ranging from performances of Les Miserables in Portland, Maine, to a zine-making workshop in Homer, Alaska. Fall of Freedom is the brainchild of visual artist Dred Scott. He told NPR that right now, many artists and cultural institutions are feeling paralyzed by political pressures. He wanted to provide an open-ended framework for them to use their creativity to feel less isolated.
We're trying to say, no, actually, let's all stand up.
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