You love talking about the things that you've accomplished in a year and a half, this very short amount of time. But you didn't exactly inherit an easy situation. If I'm not mistaken, The budget shortfall you're looking at right now is $1 billion for this year. It was a half a billion dollars in my first budget, of which I predicted that when I was running, I was the only candidate to put out a budget plan. (33:41–33:50)
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Asserts that Chicago is facing a $1 billion budget shortfall for the current year.
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