Cavalier Johnson: “It's about $97 million that I'm going to have to find a way…”

“So it's, it's shy of what it was, about $101 million in a budget deficit, but it's still a pretty substantial number. It's about $97 million that I'm going to have to find a way to cut to backfill before I present a balanced budget to the City Council in September. So still a lot of challenges that we have to work through. Have any cuts or changes to federal grants, federal funding, have those impacted the budget and the situation that the city finds itself in?” (01:17–01:32)

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