'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 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.
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. Beyond the sniping is a creeping fear among White House and New York officials that the failure to find solutions and tamp down concerns won't just leave thousands of migrants in limbo but could blow up into a major political problem for Democrats heading into 2024, the sources told CNN.
"The mayor has every right to be aggrieved," said New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx. "It is fundamentally unfair for the failure of the immigration system to fall disproportionately on the shoulders of a single city. It's hardly in the president's interest to stand by while the migrant crisis rages on and Republicans weaponize it."
They worry Adams will end up feeding and validating right wing talking points just like they say he did in 2022 when talking up how dangerous crime had made his city, with an impact that could run from the presidential race down to the New York House races that Democrats need to win to take back the majority.
While others are also trying to cool tensions - "The drama is unfortunate and really needs to end," said New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat - multiple members of the congressional delegation who have rarely been Adams allies warn that they are likely to soon join him in hammering the administration more publicly.
"The Biden administration has been listening to the needs of my city and other mayors along the border and working very, very closely to help us," Romero said. "Instead of laying blame on the Biden-Harris administration, I would be more than happy to hold hands with Mayor Adams and really direct our concerns and the concerns of millions in this country and go to Congress and say, 'It's time for you to act now.
Immigrant advocates argue that the Biden administration should expand the number of Venezuelans - who make up many of the migrant arrivals in New York - eligible for a form of humanitarian-relief known as Temporary Protected Status. That, they say, is perhaps the easiest form of action - without congressional action - the administration could take to satisfy the ask from New York. The Homeland Security secretary has discretion to designate a country for TPS.
While the destinations migrants are choosing are not dissimilar from previous years, the lack of US ties and efforts by Republicans to send people to Democratic-led cities as an affront to Biden has exacerbated the situation.
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