U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday called for the resignation of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
In a post on X, Ocasio-Cortez said the chaos in the Adams administration is making her government ineffective.
The Adams administration is the target of several federal investigations.
“I fail to see how Mayor Adams can continue to govern New York City,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The flood of resignations and vacancies threatens the function of government. The constant investigations will make it impossible to recruit and maintain a qualified administration. For the good of the city, he should resign.”
Adams responded to Ocasio-Cortez in a statement, saying she was a hypocrite and that he would not resign.
“The fact that someone who smugly claims that people accused of serious crimes should not be in prison is now claiming that New York City’s second black mayor should resign because of rumor and innuendo — without even a single charge having been filed — is the height of hypocrisy,” Adams said. “I lead this city to protect it from precisely this kind of false politics. The people of this city elected me to fight for them, and I will stay and fight no matter what.”
Earlier this month, New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned amid a federal investigation into the department’s crackdown on nightclubs, according to people familiar with the matter. Caban, the city’s first Latino commissioner, took over the department in July 2023.
“The news of recent developments has created a distraction for our department, and I am unwilling to turn my attention to anything other than our important work or the safety of the men and women of the NYPD,” Caban said in an email to NYPD members, which was obtained by NBC News.
As part of a separate investigation, the FBI raided the homes of at least two senior Adams administration officials.
Also, this month, Federal prosecutors have indicted two former high-ranking city fire chiefs on charges they accepted bribes to speed up fire safety reviews.
