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Todd Novak: “We have because the media and everybody keeps putting out…”

Featuring: Todd Novak, Republican | Wisconsin State Assembly, 51st District

June Legislative Update

Published March 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 04:05

Well, yeah, you can't believe everything you read in the news. Sorry, Phil, but we're work. It's a little, you know, I think right now there's a misconception that We have because the media and everybody keeps putting out, we have all this money, 4.1 or $2 billion and we truly don't surplus. We've only got the cost to continue current programs and everything. I don't know. Tony's on jfc. He can get into the figures. (04:05–04:14)

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Asserts that the state does not truly have a $4.1 or $2 billion surplus.

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