Kathy Hochul

In addition to I have hospitals that are teetering on the edge because they lost the money they needed from Medicaid.

So states like New York that strongly are proud of our heritage as being a progressive state where we led the women's rights movement and

the LGBTQ plus movement and the environmental movement and early in the fights and civil rights, we're proud of that heritage, but this is the equivalent of that combined because this is an attack on everyone, not just one group or another, this is an attack on everyone.

and the consequences are so severe.

So I can rant all day, Ben, because you can tell this has hit a nerve as a leader of a state that I cherish, and I want it to continue to be that guiding light for others and say we do it differently in New York, but we certainly have a fight on our hands.

You know, Ben, bullies hate being stood up to, right?

They don't like it.

And I grew up in Buffalo, family with a lot of brothers, big Catholic family, a big family packed in a tiny house.

We didn't have much when we started out.

My parents used to live in a trailer park and I know how to fight back.

I've been trained to fight back my whole life.

So what I said to the president when he first got elected, I called to congratulate him.

Mr. President, there are areas we can work on together.

Let's redo Penn Station.

It looks like a hell hole.

Everybody hates going there.

Let's redo that.

Let's work on building infrastructure.

Let's do big projects.

But if you come after New York State, our people, our values, our beliefs, you're gonna have to have a fight with me because that's who I am.