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Andrew Cuomo: “I brought the budget from 96 billion down to about 85…”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 15:52

You're going to have a deficit. I took over the state government. We had a $10 billion deficit. The budget was about $96 billion. Okay. I brought the budget from 96 billion down to about 85 billion. How did you do that? With a lot of difficulty. Have you ever heard of a budget going down? All they do is a right. You take last year's number. (15:52–15:59)

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