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Ron DeSantis: “Congressional maps requires my signature.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis Promotes Water Restoration Project In Brevard County, Florida

Published August 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 25:21

Thad was in, you know, they draw their state house maps. Governor doesn't have a role in that. Fine. The state Senate maps. Governor hasn't a role. Congressional maps requires my signature. And so that's what I tried to tell them four years ago. I was like, look, I'm not going to sign this. (25:21–25:24)

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Asserts that the governor's signature is required for congressional maps in Florida.

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“Florida still should have had another seat than what we got.”
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“Even Biden's administration came out with analysis a couple years later acknowledging that's the case.”
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“California would lose five or six seats.”
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“Florida, we would probably gain four or five seats.”
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“We were able to do, I think, about 150 million additional to our teacher salary increases.”
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“It ends up being like 1.38 billion, I think.”
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“We've awarded over three, almost $3.3 billion to over 1,000 projects aimed at protecting Florida's water resources.”
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“These are already delivering results, reducing nitrogen by over 4.8 million pounds and phosphorus by nearly 900,000 pounds on an annual…”
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“More than 250 projects have already been completed.”
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“A couple months ago we, we awarded over 389 million in grants to make additional improvements in water quality and quantity across the state…”
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“This includes almost 200 million in water quality improvement grants, 55 million to expand alternative water supply projects, 100 million…”
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“We also did 25 million to the Caloosahatchee Watershed Grant Program to reduce nutrients in the Caloosahatchee river and estuary.”
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“We did the ribbon cutting for the C43 reservoir, which is going to be instrumental in protecting the Caloosahatchee from discharges out of…”
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“We've also done 20 million to the Biscayne Bay Water Quality Improvement Program.”
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“These projects alone are projected to remove more than 1.1 million additional pounds of nitrogen and almost 300,000 additional pounds of…”
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“Fiscal year 2526 budget we invested 460 million for water quality improvements and 50 million for the alternative Water Supply Grant…”
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“Today we are announcing the completion of The Crane Creek M1 canal flow restoration Project.”
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“The Crane Creek M1 canal flow restoration Project... fixes this problem by adding a new wear pump stations, a pipeline and stormwater…”
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“We have one, restored the natural westward flow to the St. John river basin.”
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“Reduced nutrient pollution, keeping an estimated 24,000 pounds of nitrogen and 3,100 pounds of phosphorus out of the lagoon each year.”
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“Provided up to 7 million gallons of fresh water per day for downstream users without over reliance on our aquifers.”
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“Our administration has done more for the Indian River Lagoon than any administration in the history of the state of Florida.”
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“We're doing a lot for deporting illegal aliens in Florida.”
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“We've enacted very strong policies.”
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“The legislature produced a map that included bizarre racial gerrymandering.”
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“The Florida Supreme Court upheld [the governor's map].”
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“There's problems with our current congressional map in terms of violating the Constitution with racial gerrymandering.”
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“If they just did what the errors were determined to be, that would give us another seat.”
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“If they do do that, I don't know how quick they can do it.”
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