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Ron DeSantis: “There's a lot of money that's been in the kitty for Covid…”

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Published | Video Starts at 24:20

So you need to return the amount of money that the government's spending to pre Covid levels. How? What would you cut? Well, you just have to. I mean, first of all, There's a lot of money that's been in the kitty for Covid. All this stuff that has not been spent, you can easily claw that back. and you just reset these agencies with the baseline. You know, in Florida we don't do what's called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting is whatever you got last year you automatically add. (24:20–24:27)

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Asserts that unspent COVID-related funds can be reclaimed to reduce spending.

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