Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has a strategy for keeping President Trump from surging federal troops and agents into New York City: convince him it will be bad for business.

The Democratic governor, who has generally had a productive working relationship with the president, said she is enlisting executives to help drive home her new message.

It’s an evolution from her last tactic. Over the summer, Hochul leaned on falling crime rates to keep Trump from deploying troops in New York as he had in Chicago and Los Angeles.

The governor’s endorsement of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani — and his subsequent election — has complicated things. Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from the city and denounces Mamdani as a communist, which he is not.

Hochul told reporters on Monday t

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