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Ron DeSantis: “Our budget's about $117 billion.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 18:26

Certainly Florida, I mean, that was because massive deficit spending, massive borrowing, Federal Reserve policy that inflated, inflated the currency and inflated prices. And so Our budget's about $117 billion. That's budget dust for what they were spending. I mean, they added 9 trillion to the debt in two and a half years. Right. And so that's what drove the inflation now. (18:26–18:30)

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Asserts that Florida's state budget is approximately $117 billion.

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