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Ron DeSantis: “The Moving Florida Forward initiative was funded out of the surplus billions and billions of dollars.”

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So we had all these projects that needed to be done. I wanted them to be done quicker. Some of them we're going to end up doing 15 years ahead of schedule because we launched The Moving Florida Forward initiative was funded out of the surplus billions and billions of dollars. I think it's ended up leveraging up to over $7 billion front loaded to where FDOT can then do more projects and deliver them a lot earlier than we ever expected. (11:22–11:28)

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Asserts that the Moving Florida Forward initiative was funded using surplus funds amounting to billions of dollars.

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