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Ron DeSantis: “Since I became governor, we've retired more than half of…”

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Governor DeSantis Advocates for Federal Balanced Budget Amendment in Washington

Published | Video Starts at 03:01

And I understand a state is just different than the leviathan we have here in D.C. but if you look, since I became governor, if you take all the debt that's accumulated in Florida's history, 181 years, just Since I became governor, we've retired more than half of [Florida's] debt accumulated in 181 years. repayment program. We retired bonds early. We did all that. If you look at the amount of money I've line item vetoed, the previous record was 800 million in a year. (03:01–03:13)

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Asserts that Florida has retired more than half of its historical debt since DeSantis became governor.

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