So I served on the Joint Finance Committee when I was in the legislature. I helped write budgets and always made sure that they were balanced, funded our priorities. And if you look at The last budget a year ago had a $15 billion increase for the first time over $100 billion went to state government. and the surplus amounted to about $2.5 billion. So in other words, less than 30% of the increase from last year. State government has plenty of money. (02:52–03:07)
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Asserts that the last budget increased by $15 billion, surpassing $100 billion for state government.
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