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Joel Brennan: “We took a rainy day fund that had a couple hundred million…”

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

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Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Joel Brennan talks Gen Z, AI, housing, more

Published | Video Starts at 19:50

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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