When I was the secretary of the Department of Administration, the top appointed official for Governor Evers, I worked right alongside with him. We created the largest surplus in state history to that point. We took a rainy day fund that had a couple hundred million dollars and built it up to almost $2 billion. We navigated our way through Covid, and in the time of COVID it was a point at which government actually had to work. (19:50–19:57)
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Asserts that the rainy day fund in Wisconsin was increased to almost $2 billion.
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