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Ron DeSantis: “They added 9 trillion to the debt in two and a half years.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Podcast with Ron DeSantis on Florida’s Final-Year Agenda: Immigration, Free Speech, Insurance Rates

Published | Video Starts at 18:31

Certainly Florida, I mean, that was because massive deficit spending, massive borrowing, Federal Reserve policy that inflated, inflated the currency and inflated prices. And so our budget's about $117 billion. That's budget dust for what they were spending. I mean, They added 9 trillion to the debt in two and a half years. Right. And so that's what drove the inflation now. And flood insurance is federal, but car insurance and home insurance, all that has been up nationally, unbelievably. (18:31–18:36)

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