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Ron DeSantis: “The total reserves in excess of what we're spending when I…”

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Governor DeSantis Highlights Florida's Economic Growth

Published | Video Starts at 01:46

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. Now we're in this budget about 17 billion. But that's even not counting all the revenue we're going to get until June 30th. Like just November. (01:46–01:57)

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Asserts that Florida's budget reserves increased from $7 billion to $17 billion.

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