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Scott Walker: “We invested more than $18 billion into our state…”

Featuring: Scott Walker, Republican | Former Governor of Wisconsin

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Gov. Scott Walker's 2017 State of the State Address

Published | Video Starts at 38:17

Good Internet and cellular connections are important. Important for a strong economy, quality of life. So is a solid transportation system. As I stated earlier, We invested more than $18 billion into our state transportation system over the past six years. That's about $2 billion more than the previous administration did during the same time period. In fact, the previous administration and Legislature actually raided $1.4 billion from the state transportation for fund. (38:17–38:24)

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Asserts that over $18 billion has been invested in the state transportation system in the past six years.

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