But also they're going to find efficiencies, they're going to find waste and abuse. And, and I guarantee you we have done that at the state level. My first budget, when I came in as governor, I did a 4% cut in the amended budget and a 6% cut in the big budget to pay for teacher pay raises. Now, the establishment and the bureaucracy didn't like that, but they, they, we had budgets where they could deal with that. (04:28–04:39)
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Asserts that Kemp implemented budget cuts to fund teacher pay raises.
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