But with Albany, it'll be critically important to work with Albany for the financing and funding of making buses free. That's around $700 million a year. The financing and funding of delivering universal childcare, that's about five or six billion dollars. And I'm very excited that of all of the people in Albany, we've received the endorsements especially of Carl Hastie, who's the speaker of the State Assembly, Andrea Stewart Cousins, the majority Leader of the state Senate, and Governor Kathy Hochul. (20:31–20:36)
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