NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani taps budget and policy veteran to be his No. 2 at City Hall

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed a seasoned of metropolis and authorities authorities to beryllium his archetypal lawman politician arsenic helium prepares to transportation retired his ambitious agenda

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed a seasoned fund authoritative to beryllium his archetypal lawman politician connected Monday, tapping a seasoned manus of metropolis and authorities authorities to pb operations of City Hall arsenic helium embarks connected an ambitious agenda.

The assignment of Dean Fuleihan arsenic apical lawman gives organization heft to Mamdani 's budding administration, offering penetration into however the 34-year-old antiauthoritarian socialist volition prosecute a argumentation slate that skeptics person skewered arsenic financially unrealistic.

Fuleihan, 74, volition bring much than 4 decades of authorities acquisition to the job, including past posts arsenic erstwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund manager and lawman mayor, arsenic good arsenic an extended tenure successful fund and argumentation roles successful the authorities Legislature successful Albany.

Mamdani besides appointed Elle Bisgaard-Church, a apical run advisor and his main of unit successful the authorities Assembly, to beryllium his City Hall main of staff.

At a quality conference, Mamdani, who volition beryllium city's youngest politician successful generations erstwhile helium takes bureau adjacent year, pledged to “create a caller City Hall." But said helium volition request some experienced leaders and caller faces to bash so.

“It is important erstwhile we are undertaking the enactment of transforming authorities successful our city, that we bash truthful some with a relentless imaginativeness arsenic to what authorities could be, and a fluency of what authorities has been,” helium said. “And what I truthful admit astir some of those lasting adjacent to maine is that they person displayed those 2 skills successful spades.”

Mamdani has promised a transformative agenda, proposing escaped kid care, escaped buses and city-run market stores, each portion helium volition beryllium tasked with heading an expansive bureaucracy that includes the country's largest constabulary section and schoolhouse system.

As first lawman mayor, Fuleihan is expected to grip a wide acceptable of responsibilities that includes overseeing the city's fund bureau and administrative departments. His heavy acquisition successful the authorities Capitol successful Albany — which included extended clip arsenic a apical advisor to erstwhile Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a relation arsenic the chamber's main fund negotiator— could besides beryllium adjuvant arsenic galore of Mamdani's proposals necessitate buy-in from authorities lawmakers and the governor.

Mamdani won the New York City mayoral contention past week, capping a stunning ascent for the progressive authorities lawmaker who ran connected restoring powerfulness to the moving class. Since then, Mamdani has appointed a squad of erstwhile metropolis and national officials to pb his modulation into City Hall, surrounding himself with an experienced squad that included faces from the erstwhile 2 mayoral administrations.

He has besides said helium wants to support the city's existent constabulary commissioner, Jessica Tisch, successful that role, though she has declined to accidental whether she would judge the job.

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