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Andy Beshear: “It creates a $26 million hole in our road budget.”

Featuring: Andy Beshear, Democratic | Governor of Kentucky

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Gov. Andy Beshear - Team Kentucky Update 05.14.26

Published | Video Starts at 37:26

Right. They're struggling to get by. And I'd rather our people get by and me have to worry about a budget issue than the opposite. So yes, It creates a $26 million hole in our road budget. but we're able to do that by just deferring a little bit of work here or there, pushing back the starting date of a project by a couple of months. (37:26–37:31)

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Asserts that the gas tax reduction creates a $26 million deficit in the road budget.

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