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Ron DeSantis: “Covid years, I think added 8 or 9 trillion to the debt…”

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Governor DeSantis Encourages Idaho Legislature to Support Balanced Budget Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 20:09

Be, not be conducive to that. But I would say if you just look at what's happened the last 25 years, I mean, clearly, you know, those Covid years, I think added 8 or 9 trillion to the debt during that period of time. I mean, a lot of us were saying ho at the time, ho. But there was a lot of money being thrown around. (20:09–20:15)

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Asserts that 8 to 9 trillion dollars were added to the national debt during the Covid years.

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