Note the date this was written: 2014.
The fake news dissed by republicans are meant to discredit the fiscal approach another democrat, after Clinton, applied to make his state Great Again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/15/after-years-of-cuts-state-budgets-show-surpluses/?utm_term=.fbba3ed2025d