didn't meet the moment by delivering a fiscally disciplined final product.

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Well, today, Governor Andy Beshear was also critical of the budget, saying it spends less on Medicaid than experts say we should be spending.

>> Well, the legislature cut $2.8 billion out of the number that the experts who put this together said that it will cost over the next two years, $2.8 billion less going through rural hospitals, going through clinics, going through doctors and and others.

And remember, this is on top of the president's big, ugly bill, which cut trillions of dollars in Medicaid going through our rural hospitals.

In fact, before even this cut, the Kentucky Hospital Association estimated 35 rural hospitals could close each one, the largest payroll in their community.

We lose 20,000 jobs just directly, but then coffee shops, restaurants, banks and insurance companies, all supported by that largest payroll in the community, are also threatened.

>> But he says he agrees with some things in the budget.

>> A couple of good things.

The CBS out of home care, we needed some extra funding.

They provided that behavioral health came in and provided that to US state police.

We wanted to change things from comp time so they can actually get overtime for their jobs.

That money was put in, and while we asked for six additional drivers testing locations, we got three.

So good for the three that we got the three regions we didn't.

We