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Ned Lamont: “We got our fiscal house in order...saving us about 8,900…”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Capitol Rundown forum with Governor Ned Lamont

Published | Video Starts at 05:08

Flat funding for education, flat funding for municipal aid. My God, even the rest stops were shut. It was terrible. And so I think we made a lot of progress since then. We. We got our fiscal house in order...saving us about 8,900 million dollars a year in the budget. Themis knows how hard we work to balance that budget, and that allows us to do the early childhood endowment. That allows us to have significant increases in municipal aid and education funding. (05:08–05:14)

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Asserts that Connecticut's fiscal management saves approximately $8,900 million annually.

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