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Ron DeSantis: “I ended up getting to 3.3 billion [in line item vetoes] in…”

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And it's a line item veto authority. So when I became governor, the record for line item vetoes in one budget year was Jeb Bush. He had done 800 million. I ended up getting to 3.3 billion [in line item vetoes] in one year. And I've totally done about 10 billion in budget. And did all your line item vetoes. They were all sustained. Everyone was sustained. Except the one time I vetoed money for the legislature. (49:07–49:11)

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