Youngkin will inherit a cash-rich Virginia government, but what he can do with it remains uncertain.

Second, Youngkin emphasized the need to focus on competition. “We have to remember that someone is trying to eat our lunch every day of the week,” he said. “Every morning we wake up, someone is trying to hire our employees, steal our customers and oh, by the way, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas , you name them, trying to beat Virginia. So we have to compete.”