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Ron DeSantis: “We had about 1.6 billion in [the rainy day fund]. Now I…”

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So we have a maxed out rainy day fund in Florida. We're not allowed constitutionally to put anything more. It's quadrupled since I became governor. We had about 1.6 billion in [the rainy day fund]. Now I think we're 5.7 billion or something like that. I mean, it's gone up. It's great. If there's a downturn and there will be an Economic downturn at some point, economy cyclical, you got to, that's why we did this. (23:40–23:47)

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Asserts the increase in Florida's rainy day fund from 1.6 billion to approximately 5.7 billion.

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