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Ron DeSantis: “Our reserves are going to be on paper about 18 billion.”

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Governor DeSantis Signs Florida Budget for Fiscal Year 2026-2027

Published | Video Starts at 13:46

And then within that, we wanted to accommodate a lot of the priorities that folks in the legislature had. And I think we did a pretty good job of doing that. So Our reserves are going to be on paper about 18 billion. But I will say chances are they'll be higher than that because they typically underestimate what that's going to be. And that's, you know, we've tried to give back a lot of these reserves. (13:46–13:51)

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Asserts that the state's reserves are projected to be about $18 billion.

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