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WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers

Published February 18, 2026 | Video Starts at 12:43

You know, I don't really know much about, you know, the governor here. I saw someone had showed me those comments because I was coming here. All I can say is, you know, A guy that sends state police to try to block people from worshiping on Easter Sunday. a guy that's obsessed with gender mutilation of minors, if that's the person that's criticizing me, I wear that as a badge of honor. Emily, did you have a question? (12:43–12:50)

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Asserts that the governor of Kentucky sent state police to block Easter Sunday worship.

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Ron DeSantis

“We were one vote away in the mid-1990s in the US Senate from passing a balanced budget amendment out of Congress and sending it to the…”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 02:42-02:52
“We've got 28 states that have done this [passed a balanced budget amendment].”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 03:43-03:46
“Even 10 years ago, I think we were at like 16 trillion. Now you're at 38 trillion.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 04:43-04:50
“Those interest payments are over a trillion dollars a year and growing.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 04:58-05:04
“If you look at we've been a state 180 years, you look at our whole history, all the debt that was accumulated since I've been governor…”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 17:27-17:35
“New York State's budget. Even though we have 3 million plus more residents than they do, their budget's more than twice the size of…”
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“The balanced budget amendment is important. I don't think there's any other way that you're going to change the fiscal trajectory of this…”
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“We had three years in a row where the federal government in the late 90s was actually running a balanced budget.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 02:56-03:02
“When some of the bonds come due this year for refinancing, they're going to be refinanced, unfortunately at higher interest rates.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 05:04-05:11
“I have line item veto, so I veto spending, but we also run surpluses.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 05:50-05:56
“An Article 5 convention cannot change the Constitution.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 11:03-11:07
“Ultimately, any actual change for the Constitution requires ratification of 3/4 of the states, 38 states.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 11:15-11:23
“Kentucky hasn't passed [the balanced budget amendment], but it's really a prime candidate that would want to pass it.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 12:15-12:20
“A guy that's obsessed with gender mutilation of minors.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 12:49-12:53
“I've been involved with balanced budget for the last 10 years.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 13:37-13:41
“Congress was actually going to green light 2 trillion of spending without a vote.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 14:34-14:41
“Then the COVID spending started, a lot of the acceleration of the debt and such, because you've seen that's when they locked in the $2…”
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“Eighteen states, including Florida, and I think many more, if we get to the point, have enacted legislation about faithful delegates.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 15:56-16:05
“I vetoed $10 billion in spending with line item vetoes, which has helped us retire that debt.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 17:36-17:43
“Our budget for three years in a row has basically been the same.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 17:43-17:48
“We just did 1.38 billion for teacher pay increases.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 18:07-18:12
“We have 23 and a half million people. Our budget's $117 billion in Florida.”
WATCH: DeSantis Takes Questions After Promoting Balanced Budget Amendment To Kentucky Lawmakers | Uploaded February 18, 2026 | 18:26-18:32
“This is a bipartisan problem. I wish I could tell you it was just the Democrats, but it's a bipartisan problem, and it's going to require a…”
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“I think this balanced budget can do that because I think people realize that the trajectory is scary and we got to do something about it…”
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