As governor, what will you do with the money? Governor Evers, you have a minute? Well, thank you so much for that question. And frankly, One of the reasons that that amount of money is in our rainy day fund and in our surplus, it is because we did the right thing during the pandemic. We made sure that when we looked at revenue coming in during the pandemic that people that worked in small businesses were suffering, that people that are farmers were suffering, our tourism industry and restaurants. (24:57–25:10)
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