Adam Sosnick

There's such a tired technique, Adam.

I think people wish you'd knock it down.

Michael Waltz, right?

We met him.

Hey, listen, it's my time.

Oh, no, sir.

You now have encountered the truth and you don't like it.

Why'd you take their money?

Mm-hmm.

Been there, lived there.

Just show bad bunnies.

My mother always told me, be careful who you love, and be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

So I am encouraged by the conversations we've been having, not only with the governor, but also with legislative leaders in Albany.

And these are conversations about putting the city back on firm financial footing.

When I was standing here in this room weeks ago announcing the fact that our conclusions were coming to the same level of assessment at the very least as the previous city controller, the current city controller, and the current state controller, we also said that we would then be updating

those assessments as we got more information about Wall Street bonuses, as we got more information about the economic forecast, and as we also took savings measures of our own.

And so in that time since, as I shared yesterday in Albany, that $12 billion deficit is now one that we have been able to bring down to $7 billion.

And that's in part because of the revenues, the Wall Street bonuses, also an aggressive savings plan and a use of in-year reserves.

I am encouraged by the conversations we're having with Albany

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