new york city mayor bill de blasio struck a more defiant tone thursday when talking about president-elect donald trump, saying he would work with him whenever possible but would vigorously resist policies that hurt new yorkers. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re not going to take anything lying down,<u+201d> said mr. de blasio during a city hall news conference a day after he had taken a more conciliatory tone about mr. trump<u+2019>s victory. <u+201c>anything we see as a threat to new yorkers we will confront.<u+201d> mr. de blasio, a democrat, said he left a message for mr. trump, a republican, but hadn<u+2019>t heard back as of thursday afternoon. a spokeswoman for mr. trump didn<u+2019>t respond to a request for comment. the mayor said his administration would fight any attempt to deport people in the city, any effort to undermine abortion rights and any movement to repeal the affordable care act, commonly known as obamacare. mr. de blasio, who supported democrat hillary clinton's white house bid, said he was <u+201c>still processing<u+201d> what the election might mean for the city. when asked what went wrong for democrats and whether he thought mrs. clinton was the right person to be the democratic nominee, mr. de blasio said he needed to give the issues more thought. the mayor said he was hopeful that he could work with mr. trump to increase investment in infrastructure. mr. de blasio said he was confident the city could protect the personal information of immigrants who had enrolled in a city identification card program from being used by the trump administration for deportations. <u+201c>we are not going to sacrifice a half million people who live among us,<u+201d> he said. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re not going to tear families apart. we will do everything we know how to do to resist that.<u+201d> asked what his message was to muslim new yorkers, the mayor said: <u+201c>we have your back.<u+201d> during the campaign, mr. trump had recommended banning muslims from entering the u.s. mr. trump has called mr. de blasio <u+201c>the worst mayor in the u.s.<u+201d> write to mara gay at mara.gay@wsj.com
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