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Patrick Morrisey: “Our goal was to match the ongoing expenditures with the…”

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Governor Morrisey Announces More Than $168 Million in Potential Savings Across State Government

Published | Video Starts at 19:45

Our kids and our families definitely need the help from that TANF program. If you go to the next slide, you could see TANF today where that annual spending exceeds the federal block. And Our goal was to match the ongoing expenditures with the budget allocation. So you see the numbers. 100 million annually and TANF is projected to exceed $140 million. So there are temporary, temporary carryover balances that help avoid this being a today problem. But those funds are shrinking quickly and we have to address it. (19:45–19:59)

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Asserts that the goal is to align TANF expenditures with a $100 million annual budget, but spending is projected to exceed $140 million.

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