Cavalier Johnson: “We have to balance our budgets, and we'll do that…”

“And we will close that gap. Just like I mentioned, we closed the gap last year, just like the gap is closed every single year. It's state law. We have to balance our budgets, and we'll do that responsibly without pushing costs into future years. We'll do it without clever budget trips, tricks. But it's not a. It's not a simple task. It just. It's not balancing this budget.” (23:25–23:33)

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