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Ned Lamont: “We've got, you know, almost four and a half billion dollars…”

Featuring: Ned Lamont, Democratic | Governor of Connecticut

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Governor Ned Lamont on Connecticut's Stability in Uncertain Times

Published | Video Starts at 07:48

I want to make sure we don't go through what we go through usually, which is, you know, cutting funding for schools and cities and raising taxes. We've got, you know, almost four and a half billion dollars set aside [in reserves]. to make sure that won't happen, you know, again. And we've also, you maybe remember the pension was just eating us alive and nobody had saved for the pension going back 50 years. (07:48–07:52)

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Asserts that the state has nearly $4.5 billion in reserves.

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