Moderator says budget includes large teacher pay allocation; transcript number unclear

The Moderator said the state budget included a substantial, categorical increase for teacher salaries and characterized it as an action prior administrations had not taken. In the transcript the Moderator stated: "We just did our budget had, 1.5, I think, $8,000,000,000 in our salary categorical just for for increases for school teachers, and no 1 was doing that prior to to our administration."