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Ron DeSantis: “By the end of this fiscal year we will have paid off almost…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Gov. DeSantis delivers remarks at Florida Freedom Forum in Orlando

Published | Video Starts at 20:58

If you take the entire history of Florida all 180 years and you take all the debt that was accumulated over that period that just since I've been governor, By the end of this fiscal year we will have paid off almost half of that debt for the 180 year period. And we now have the lowest per capita debt in the entire United States of America. So but we're doing big things. We just raised salaries for highway patrol and state law enforcement. (20:58–21:05)

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Asserts that Florida will have paid off almost half of its historical debt by the end of the fiscal year.

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