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Ron DeSantis: “It's ended up leveraging up to over $7 billion front loaded to where FDOT can then do more projects.”

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Some of them we're going to end up doing 15 years ahead of schedule because we launched the Moving Florida Forward initiative. We. Which was funded, we did out of the surplus billions and billions of dollars. I think It's ended up leveraging up to over $7 billion front loaded to where FDOT can then do more projects. and deliver them a lot earlier than we ever expected. And I think it's been a huge success. If you look at some of the things that we've been able to do. (11:28–11:36)

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Asserts that the initiative has leveraged over $7 billion for the Florida Department of Transportation.

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