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   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.   
      
   “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 issue is one of the most sensitive issues for the White House, and   
   for Biden’s reelection campaign. Intergovernmental affairs director   
   Julie Chávez Rodríguez, chief of staff Ron Klain and Homeland Security   
   Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall bristled. They were doing everything they   
   could at the White House to lead without Congress pitching in, they   
   said. Biden had done more than any previous president and much of what   
   Adams was asking for would either require congressional action or would   
   likely immediately be challenged in court.   
      
   It was a moment, which is being reported now for the first time, that   
   prefaced a total breakdown of the relationship between the White House   
   and the mayor’s office. CNN’s conversations with multiple sources   
   revealed the political partnership has devolved into finger-pointing and   
   frustration between Adams, the president, their aides and advocates who   
   complain that the leaders have both been blundering through a response   
   to a crisis that more than one told CNN feels like “playing hot potato   
   with people.”   
      
   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.   
      
   While other cities have been seeing a growing number of migrant   
   arrivals, New York City has become the epicenter of the crisis, after   
   the number of newly arrived asylum seekers since spring 2022 surpassed   
   100,000 last month with costs projected to run up to $12 billion in the   
   coming years as people line up in search of housing and other basic   
   services.   
      
   There are efforts to bridge the divide. Tom Perez, who took over from   
   Chávez Rodríguez – now Biden’s reelection campaign manager – as director   
   of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, recently spent   
   time in New York to try to smooth over tensions over the migrant crisis   
   and coordinate with state and city partners, according to multiple   
   sources.   
      
   Natalie Quillian, a deputy White House chief of staff, has also been   
   involved in coordinating federal efforts to address New York’s concerns,   
   but even that has been a source of tension, with Adams feeling fobbed   
   off after having a regular line of communication and several White House   
   meetings with Klain.   
      
   “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.”   
      
   In City Hall, they complain that they’re not just bearing the brunt now,   
   but that the costs will eat away at the rest of the agenda that Adams   
   had been hoping to pursue in a city still struggling to come back from   
   the pandemic. And the only reason anyone is paying attention, he and   
   those around him believe, is because he has used his platform to make as   
   much noise as he can, demanding that the federal government take care of   
   a situation that only exists because it was the federal government that   
   let these people into the country.   
      
   “The White House has made the conscious decision that it’s better   
   politics to let New York suffer than to actually try to fix the   
   problem,” said one person close to Adams. “The city is being left to   
   deal with this colossal problem itself.”   
      
   They’ll work it out, stressed campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz.   
      
   “President Biden counts Mayor Adams as a friend and partner,” Munoz told   
   CNN. “He looks forward to working with the mayor on issues impacting New   
   Yorkers, and to win the White House again in 2024.”   
      
   A problem for Empire State Democrats   
   Biden and Adams are a long way from the president pulling off half of   
   his peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich and offering it to the mayor as   
   they sat next to each other in the back of the presidential limo in   
   February 2022, riding around New York City together, in Biden’s early   
   embrace of the new mayor as the kind of pragmatic leader Democrats   
   needed in their next generation. Neither has even picked up a phone to   
   call in over a year.   
      
   While Biden advisers argue that the voters they need in battleground   
   states will not be thinking about what the mayor of New York City has to   
   say in deciding who they will support for president, New York Democrats   
   – still bruised from the 2022 races – are not so sure.   
      
   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.   
      
   It’s not just the images of the migrants on the streets that could prove   
   disastrous politically, they say. It’s the Republicans already making an   
   issue of the local and federal government spending on assisting   
   migrants.   
      
   New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, whom sources tell CNN has been trying to   
   thread demands for a more robust response and being a Democratic team   
   player who’s not as critical of Biden, has been left trying to be the   
   mediator.   
      
   She went to Washington for a two-and-a-half hour meeting with White   
   House chief of staff Jeff Zients on Wednesday and ended up extracting   
   more commitments than she had expected, including taking steps to ensure   
   migrants who are eligible to apply for a work permit in New York City   
   are encouraged to do so and pledging support from federal agencies.   
   Biden was down the hall in the Oval Office meeting with Vermont Sen.   
   Bernie Sanders, but didn’t stop by.   
      
   While others are also trying to cool tensions – “The drama is   
      
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