Ned Lamont: “I like to make sure that we fund things with a revenue…”

“I just thought it was a fiscal disaster. And so I always call it an honestly balanced budget rather than a guardrails because that gets confusing. But I like to make sure that we fund things with a revenue stream we know we can count on, not just this year, but next year. I don't want to leave any holes in the budget next year because that's what my predecessors did. So now Republicans are saying, look, we have billion dollar surplus every year, 4 billion in the rainy day fund.” (02:26–02:33)

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