Lisa Abramowicz

We're here at a leader of businesses with the leaders of businesses who oversee huge portfolios of money.

How as governor do you keep attracting this type of business to a state while providing some of the social services and other expenses that cause taxes to go up?

Are you concerned about what would happen if, say, there is a changeover in the leadership in New York City?

Let's say mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani does win and implements some of the policies that he puts out there.

Are you concerned about the ramifications for a place like Greenwich, which really relies on the ecosystem of the tri-state region?

How concerned are you about who the leader is in the Democratic Party right now?

Do you have a sense of where the leadership really is coming from?

But I'm wondering, though, how does a governor take that leadership when things are shut down in Washington, D.C., and when it seems like there's a real fissure right now in the party in tactics, in approach, in platform?

How much have you seen actual ramifications from the government shutdown in the form of funding that isn't coming through?

Well, how long do you have reserves to cover things?

In other words, when does the funding run out should this shutdown continue for a long period of time?

I guess I want to go back to the idea of leadership right now, because we are beginning the midterm election cycle.

And I wonder, as a Democrat, in your second term as governor,

How much do you feel allegiance to the Democratic Party versus something else amorphous that's coming that doesn't necessarily have a label?

How much are you concerned about some of the images that we're seeing with the National Guard going into places like Chicago and San Francisco and Portland and really raising a question about whether it's going to be the states versus the federal government?

Going forward, what is your plan to try to keep businesses here and attract them to the Northeast, given the exodus that has gone to Florida, to other places that have lower taxes?

Do you think that taxes need to come down?

Do you think that that's an instrumental part of trying to keep attracting businesses and compete with other states?

Going forward, what is your number one hope for the state?

What is your number one sort of policy platform that you're hoping to get forward over the next one to five years?