Leila Fadel
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Police reform being one.
Another, critics will say that you promised to expand a rental voucher program, but now you're trying to limit it.
Are you finding that it is harder to implement campaign promises now that you're actually in the office?
When will New Yorkers start to feel that promise of affordability?
One of the places where it seems a bit more challenging is on your promise around police reform, especially because you and the commissioner don't seem to be on the same page.
When you look back at what you did promise on policing, especially when it's that particular unit that deals with protesters, some accused of heavy-handed tactics, where do you stand now?
But how will you disband that particular unit which arrested protesters if the police commissioner doesn't have the same goal and if police see you as overly sympathetic to accusers who come forward and say the police were not acting right?
You're a proud democratic socialist.
It's clear Republicans plan to use you and that platform to
as an attack point come the midterms.
Do you feel pressure to prove that your brand of democratic socialism works before the midterms?
What I'm asking is, whether you like it or not, you have been made to seem like a boogeyman of some kind, right?
From the Republicans, especially when you were running.
So do you feel an added sense of pressure nationally because of the face you've become
of the Democratic Party and specifically the progressive part of this party?
Has the war in Iran had an outsized impact specifically on the economy of this city?
Have you shared, I know you've spoken publicly about your concerns about this war, but have you shared those directly with President Trump?
So I know you said, I'll keep the contents of those conversations between us.
But when you were campaigning, President Trump did have names for you.
He called you a communist lunatic, and you had names for him.