Obviously I have credibility by doing my line item vetoes and keeping these budgets in order. But we've had inflation nationwide. We had Covid, we had a lot of issues. And In real dollars, inflation adjusted per capita spending in Florida from before COVID when I took office today is down. We have not increased even that in nominal dollars. Four straight years of spending reduction. So the notion that you just have to keep increasing your budget to deliver core services, we have proven that that's not true at the state level. (46:13–46:22)
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Asserts that inflation-adjusted per capita spending in Florida has decreased since before COVID-19.
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