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Rick Scott: “The federal government has spent billions of dollars in…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 06:09

I mean, we, you know, our police departments, our fire departments, our sheriff departments, emergency management, everybody, we all work together to get it done. The federal government has spent billions of dollars in California for fire management and disaster mitigation. So was there any value out of that? I mean, that's the question we have to ask. So we, you know, we've got to understand, you know, what happened to the local fire department's budget. (06:09–06:18)

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Asserts that the federal government has spent billions on fire management and disaster mitigation in California.

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