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Andrew Cuomo: “I took over the state government. We had a $10 billion…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 15:41

Why can't it be a grant instead of a loan? Just going back and. And scrubbing all of this stuff, which is a tedious, painful process. 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. (15:41–15:46)

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Asserts that when Andrew Cuomo took over the state government, there was a $10 billion deficit.

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