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Andrew Cuomo: “I took over the state government. We had the largest deficit…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 25:18

It's about $250 million. I think you will find within the $115 billion budget a lot of funds that can be better spent. You know, I come with a different perspective. I took over the state government. We had the largest deficit in the history in the state of New York, something like $10 billion. And we had to go through that budget line by line by line. How do you do things better? How do you do things more efficiently? (25:18–25:27)

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Asserts that when Andrew Cuomo took over the state government, New York had a $10 billion deficit, the largest in its history.

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