Katie Hobbs: “The state is already facing huge funding cliffs because of…”

“Well, first of all, the federal government said that they were going to keep national parks open. So that was very encouraging. The problem and what makes this shutdown different than previous shutdowns is The state is already facing huge funding cliffs because of the partisan Washington budget that, that passed and is slashing health care, among so many other things. And we're already being faced with these really tough choices when it comes to budgeting, how we, how we make our limited state resources fill these gaps that we rely on federal funding for.” (07:57–08:09)

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