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Ron DeSantis: “In the late 90s...we were very close to passing [a balanced…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Advocates for Federal Balanced Budget Amendment in Washington

Published | Video Starts at 05:27

So you have to be able to provide these constraints and just think. And Lauren and I have done things in different parts of the country and, and so he knows In the late 90s...we were very close to passing [a balanced budget amendment]...one vote away in the Senate. Senate probably would have been ratified at the time. That was when we were about to generate a surplus in the late. In the late 90s. (05:27–05:36)

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Asserts that a balanced budget amendment was nearly passed in the late 1990s, missing by one Senate vote.

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