Stephen A. Smith: “You're basically accusing politicians of not spending money. In other words, you usually have $10 billion…”

“Forgive me for staying on this topic because I got a lot of things to get to. Representative But I'm just saying to you that you understand how shocking that is. You're basically accusing politicians of not spending money. In other words, you usually have $10 billion. There's an additional $17 billion and the politicians in the state of Texas don't want to spend it. That doesn't make sense to the average person listening right now. They don't want it. 17 billion, they don't want to spend it is crazy.” (03:16–03:29)

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