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Ron DeSantis: “The CARES act you had 2.2 trillion at the December 2020.”

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But the typical budget that you do for the federal government to run, all the agencies, they have to do that annually. And so what they've done is really starting with COVID Jack up the spending. The CARES act you had 2.2 trillion at the December 2020. Biden came in and put it on steroids with his American Rescue plan, which was totally gratuitous, the infrastructure stuff. (23:09–23:14)

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Asserts that the CARES Act involved $2.2 trillion in spending by December 2020.

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