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Published August 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:33

I'll let him go in a second. I just want to, you know, and Blaze alluded this in his, in his original remarks. If you look at kind of salaries and benefits, Federal [salaries and benefits] is higher than state, but county and city are oftentimes higher than federal. Right. And so look, I want people to do well, I'm not like and I just pushed a big pay increase for Florida Highway Patrol and I want to do … (01:33–49:33)

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“Florida and every rating agencies is AAA across the board.”
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“We're ranked number one economy three years in a row by cnbc.”
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“We've retired more than 40% [of Florida's total historic debt] since I've been governor.”
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“We now have the lowest per capita debt of any state in the country.”
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“We have the second lowest per capita spending in the entire United States of America.”
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“Florida's budget is less than half the size of New York's, despite having millions more residents.”
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“Broward had no net population growth in the last five years, but the budget's up 60%.”
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“Orange County's budget increased from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.6 billion in the most recent year.”
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“We've championed this year is the auditing of state agencies, but also local governments with respect to how they're taxing and spending.”
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“Florida eliminated, I signed legislation years ago to eliminate DEI from our public universities.”
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“This year is spending less than last year. Last year spent less than the year before.”
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“We accelerated $7 billion for [road projects].”
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“We've also done billions of dollars to raise teacher pay.”
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“This year was 1.38 billion, I think we did, which is way more than had ever been done before [for teacher salaries].”
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“We've also done more for natural resources and environmental restoration.”
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“We've put billions and billions of dollars into conserving our natural resources.”
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“We made all baby items permanently tax free.”
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“We made all disaster supplies, I think, within some reasonable limits, permanently tax free.”
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“We just eliminated the tax on business rent.”
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“Tax relief and property tax relief are beneficial for Florida families.”
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“We worked with the legislature to beef up audit authority for local governments receiving state funds.”
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“Local governments volunteered to have their books looked at, but some were not cooperative.”
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“Orange County was not fully cooperative with the audit process.”
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“Orange County grew about 10% in the last five years.”
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“Senior citizens on fixed income [are affected by] homes being assessed higher and higher.”
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“You're giving money to, you know, more niche ideological causes in this county and some of the others.”
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“We've had Blaze and our team, you know, interview different employees from around county government, including several who the county said…”
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“Some of these people were reading off a prepared script. They wouldn't fully answer the questions.”
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“The deportations are continuing. DHS is taking people out of [Alligator Alcatraz] and they're moving them out.”
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“Our role is to provide more space for processing, detention leading into the deportation.”
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“We have way more illegal aliens that we're apprehending than DHS is able to house, process and deport in an orderly fashion.”
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“That's why we're doing the deportation Depot up in Northeast Florida in Baker county, right next to Jacksonville.”
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“We have thousands that can go to Alligator Alcatraz, another 1300 in Baker county for the deportation Depot.”
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“Biden gave him a work permit.”
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“The CFO would not have issued the subpoenas if all the questions were answered.”
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“We then got more authority at the state level through the legislature in the most recent budget.”
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“The legislature passed a change in law recently which said there's no street art allowed.”
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“I've approved millions of dollars for a memorial.”
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“We removed the [Broward county] sheriff [for the Parkland failures], and the Senate eventually upheld that.”
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“We did the same with some of the supervisors of elections in South Florida.”
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“We now have very, very well run elections.”
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“The ability or the actually the mandate for DOT to keep the streets clear of markings or messaging or graffiti, that's just.”
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“Broder and his colleagues passed that unanimously in the Florida Senate.”
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“I signed it in the law.”
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“Orange has had a net population gain, Broward has not, and yet their budget went up 60%.”
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“This was implementing guidance that was published probably a couple months ago by Jared Perdue at the Florida Department of Transportation.”
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“Local governments have to follow the state standard.”
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“DOT said, no, we're going to go do that.”
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“Property values went up, gusher of revenue, and then they're spending.”
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“If that's your homesteaded residence, I don't think you should have to pay rent to the government.”
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“If you have tax and you buy a house for $400,000, you should then all of a sudden, years later, say it's 800,000. It's an unrealized gain.”
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