what you're saying is a portion of that is attributable to the federal cuts.

Yes, but we haven't seen the cuts yet.

What we're seeing is we have to spend money on work requirements so that we can continue to pull and drag down Medicaid dollars.

So we are protecting Medicaid in the budget, but we're not facing all of the cuts that the Big Beautiful Bill is going to have yet.

That's still going to come over the next 10 years, and that's going to be about $2.6 or so billion.

So what I'm trying to say is...

The billion dollar shortfall that we had in revenue is actually because of decisions we've been making at the state level, giving tax breaks to corporations, doing various other tax cuts and not replacing that revenue.

Do you hold people in basements against their will or not come out in the daylight, drink human blood? Are there some weird proclivities of a democratic socialist that they could be right about?