JB Pritzker: “Paid down debt, about $12 billion of debt that's been paid…”

“So for eight years in a row, then I will have gotten balanced budgets passed in our state. Paid down debt, about $12 billion of debt that's been paid down. We got rid of all those unpaid bills, by the way. We no longer have unpaid bills. We used to have a.250 days it took the state to pay a bill.” (20:44–20:48)

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