Dustin Burrows: “I could never vote to ever go below $8 billion because that…”

“You know, with respect to the billion dollars that's going to be diverted from the rainy day fund, I was comfortable spending up over a little over $2 billion. And the reason being is we have $10 billion in the rainy day fund today. I could never vote to ever go below $8 billion because that would start to affect our credit rating. Over the next biennium, we expect to collect another $2 billion into the rainy day fund in a leaner time.” (03:34–03:40)

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