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Ron DeSantis: “Our rainy day fund when I became governor, I think was about…”

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Governor DeSantis Highlights Florida's Economic Growth

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

Or even having conversations, like some states do about raising people's taxes. That's like, totally not even a discussion. In the state of Florida, we were able to roll out the budget today. Our rainy day fund when I became governor, I think was about 1.3 billion. We've now maxed it out, so it's $5 billion in the rainy day fund. We're not allowed to put any more money into it the way Florida's constitution is. So that's there. The total reserves in excess of what we're spending when I became governor was about 7 billion. (01:32–01:42)

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Asserts that Florida's rainy day fund increased from $1.3 billion to $5 billion during his tenure.

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