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Let's talk with a governor who's fighting back and winning against some of these Trump executive orders, freezing funds, which would have caused big problems in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Governor Shapiro, welcome.
Hey, Ben, it's great to be with you. And by the way, I just want to say thanks for having me back on. I know you're Mr. Big Time now, but you remember who was there in the beginning. Now you all are number one. Congratulations. I'm so proud of you and your brothers. But I'm glad you didn't forget us little people.
Thanks for having me back on. We will never forget. We appreciate all the work you're doing in the Commonwealth, and I appreciate that. Let's talk about the lawsuit that you brought against the Trump administration's funding freeze. There was about $2.1 billion that you identified there. That was in the lawsuit that you filed of funds that were supposed to go to the Commonwealth that were blocked.
That's why you brought the lawsuit and you've accounted for what all 2.1 billion now after fighting back. Tell us about that.
Yeah, we won. Look, I mean, this really comes down to a simple thing that our kids learn in middle school, right? A deal is a deal. That's it. The federal government made a deal with Pennsylvania to invest $2.1 billion in our commonwealth. A whole lot more than that, but that's what was frozen.
And understand, Ben, this was money that was going to things like fixing old abandoned minefields where we were having sinkholes. We actually had a woman die in Western Pennsylvania who fell into a sinkhole. It was capping orphan wells that were leaking methane into our communities, which was speeding up climate change and having really adverse health risks in the community and so much more.
And so I talked to the federal government and said, yo, y'all can't do this. You've got to give us the money that is owed to us. Remember, a deal is a deal. They refused. And so I had no other choice but to take them to court. I sued them, but I kept talking to them during that process.
and ultimately made very very clear i wasn't going away pennsylvania was going to get its fair share of federal funding and what's been promised to us and we were able to get them to unfreeze all 2.1 billion dollars that had been taken away from pennsylvania i'm really proud of that and i'm grateful to the people whose voices were raised up demanding that the federal government do what they were legally
required to do and as a result the good people of pennsylvania are protected look you've got a lot of bipartisan support there in the commonwealth you visit blue areas purple areas red areas and you got pretty good support even in some of those ruby red and red areas They're being impacted by a lot of what we're seeing, though, from the Trump administration.
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