The Trump administration is reviewing a “racial equity” plan released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani — with a top Department of Justice official calling the city’s proposal “fishy.”
Mamdani on Monday unveiled the long-delayed “preliminary citywide racial equity plan,” 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.
Hizzoner called it “the first step in developing a whole-of-government approach to tackling that reality.”
“It 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,” he said.
The report was legally mandated under a 2022 voter referendum, but ex-Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly pushed back its release.
It now comes as President Trump’s admin targets diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in Democrat-led states like New York.
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the DOJ, said her team was reviewing the proposal.
“Sounds fishy/illegal. Will review!” she wrote on X.