Federal government said, no, you cannot even do that, Eric. So they told me by city law, I had to house, feed, clothe, give, educate 40,000 children incorporated into our system. It cost us $7.5 billion [to house, feed, clothe, and educate 40,000 migrant children]. and I still had to make sure. I settled all of my union contracts for city employees, made sure we had a fiscal cliff of a lot of the programs that we had in place. (04:49–04:52)
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