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Byron Donalds: “If it takes three years to put a shovel in the ground for a…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Seminole County Early Voting Rally

Published | Video Starts at 23:42

And that's why they come here to. The tough side is more people are here. So we have to modernize how we permit jobs in our state and get them up and running. If it takes three years to put a shovel in the ground for a new road interchange, and by the way, that's to put the shovel in the ground. It then takes two years after that to build it. Now we've built infrastructure five years into the future that we needed two years ago. That doesn't make any sense. And we gotta fix that and we gotta repair that and we can do that. (23:42–23:53)

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Asserts that it takes three years to start and two additional years to complete a new road interchange in Florida.

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