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. Have you ever heard of a budget going down? (15:46–15:50)
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Asserts that the state budget was approximately $96 billion when Andrew Cuomo took over.
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