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Josh Shapiro: “I was absolutely adamant that there would be no cuts to…”

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Takes Questions From Reporters After Signing FY27 State Budget

Published | Video Starts at 26:24

But because we kept added, because we held out for the best Possible compromise. There's a lot of bad things that would have hurt Pennsylvanians that we together kept off the table. I was absolutely adamant that there would be no cuts to Medicaid services, and there are none in this budget. We insisted. We insisted that every single single dollar of adequacy funding for our students and our schools be in this budget. And every single dollar is there. Chairman Harris. (26:24–26:32)

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Asserts that there are no cuts to Medicaid services in the Pennsylvania budget.

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