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13 October
5:27 pm

You fund Cornell University to the tune of a hundred and fifty million dollars a year.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:27 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure claimed for state funding to Cornell University — verifiable against state budget records.
What we foundNew York State does provide substantial annual funding to Cornell University through SUNY appropriations for its statutory colleges, and the figure has historically been in the range of $130M–$168M, making a $150M claim broadly consistent with available evidence, though the exact current state-only figure cannot be precisely confirmed.
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