He had already pulled more than $18 billion in funding, at least for New York and more for these blue states and these projects. So this was originally seen as a threat. But Russ Vote is delivering today. Your reaction? Well, As funding lapses, the administration has to make incredibly difficult choices about how to utilize the limited funds that are available. The easy answer is to reopen the government. But we have an opportunity writ large to create efficiencies and remove waste, fraud and abuse inside the federal government. (04:23–04:32)
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Asserts that the administration must make difficult funding decisions due to the lapse.
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