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Joel Brennan: “We did the same thing and got $200 million more savings in…”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 39:14

I sat on calls like this with members of my cabinet colleagues with the UW system, the technical schools, and we said, we went around and said, okay, who can do this? Who can do that? And we found that savings. We did the same thing and got $200 million more savings in the second year of the biennium. Like those are the things that you have to do. You sure as hell have to do it during times of crisis. (39:14–39:20)

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