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Ron DeSantis: “In Florida we don't do what's called baseline budgeting.”

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All this stuff that has not been spent, you can easily claw that back and you just reset these agencies with the baseline. You know, In Florida we don't do what's called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting is whatever you got last year you automatically add. And that's the starting point here. It's zero based. You know, you as an agency may have had, you know, $100 million last year. (24:29–24:33)

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Asserts that Florida does not use baseline budgeting, unlike the federal government.

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