Sometimes we use 5 million. But when you lose $7 billion with a B, that comes out of your budget. And Washington was supposed to be our insurance. And what they said, we're not taking your claim. So we were stuck with finding $7 billion with a B. And so some of the cuts we had to do, we had no other choice, but we minimized them for those issues, like our older adults, our children, our law enforcement, our hospitals. (45:51–45:58)
CLAIM
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