But I wanted to be transparent in this budget, some of the biggest headwinds we have are there's a lot of federal and state cuts that are affecting the city of El PASO. There's over $10 million in state exemptions that we're not going to receive anymore from the state of Texas. There's federal cuts that are affecting us as well. This is the last thing we wanted to do is to have to look at raising the tax, at any rate. (01:32–01:39)
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