Finance Minister Nicola Willis responds to Moody's downgrade of New Zealand's credit outlook, defending the government's strict fiscal discipline and past spending cuts while addressing public pressure for cost-of-living relief and questioning the effectiveness of current budgete
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Do you accept, I mean, look, you have to accept that you are going to be blamed for what is going on with the ratings agencies because you've added costs of entitlements to this country, you haven't cut anything. And actually, I just wonder, Nicola, if you can sheet back a lot of the pole drop that National is experiencing. thing to your guys failure to deliver on your promise to get the books back in order.
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