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Ron DeSantis: “We have a budget of 117 billion for 23 and a half million…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Makes Announcement at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Published | Video Starts at 25:00

When you talk about Everglades and moving Florida forward, infrastructure, all this stuff, and still do it with low tax and all that, what's the excuse from all these other. Where is this money going? Why is it that We have a budget of 117 billion for 23 and a half million people. New York has a budget for 19 and a half million people of $268 billion. Where. What's wrong with their roads? What's wrong with all this stuff? So this can be done. (25:00–25:05)

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Asserts that Florida's budget is $117 billion for a population of 23.5 million.

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