Oh, well, first off, first off, it would be disastrous if we got any federal funding pulling. And let me just say that these are taxpayer dollars that New York sends to D.C. There's only been in the last 10 years, last 20 years, two years in which we've gotten more money back from the federal government than we spent. And that was doing ARPA and the CARES act dollars we spend. We send more money to D.C. than we get back. (16:03–16:11)
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Asserts that in the past 20 years, only two years saw New York receiving more federal funds than it contributed.
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