While Donald Trump won most of Albany County, John Kasich won most of the inner suburbs like Delmar, Slingerlands, Loundville, Menands and Albany's Pine Bush neighborhood, which tend to be a bit more liberal. Rural communities and the outer suburbs tended to go heavily for Donald Trump.
Probably he's avoiding New York so he doesn't have to claim himself as a part time resident and avoid paying New York City and State income tax.
And from what I've read, it doesn't include a carbon tax or eliminate the wasteful home mortage interest tax deduction.
"It is unprecedented in the modern era for an appropriations fight to end in a government shutdown when one party has full control—or really under any configuration other than when the president is a Democrat and Republicans control at least one chamber in Congress. The current partisan alignment should effectively preclude a shutdown, but Trump’s particular mix of incompetence, narcissism, and poor judgment is potent enough to confound basic game theory. As in so many realms of public affairs, Trump’s mere presence creates massive amounts of uncertainty."
"This man is without experience, and it's showing," said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian and author of multiple books on presidents, from Roosevelt and Truman to Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan. "Particularly in his dealings with Congress, he's been an utter failure in the sense that he's gotten nothing passed. He's issuing all sorts of executive orders, like immigration limits; they're failing. The attempt to get health care reform failed. I'd give him failing marks for his 100 days."