It's not what the Democrats want us to invest in some of these areas, but we have a very compelling story to tell of what we've actually accomplished. And frankly, Having a two and a half billion dollar surplus at the end just shows how responsible we've been over the last eight years. You know, we started off after Covid when we got that shocking update from Bob Lang that we had a 7 billion dollar surplus. (31:56–32:04)
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