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Ron DeSantis: “We have the lowest number of state workers, state government…”

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Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Condo Reform Bill in Clearwater Beach

Published | Video Starts at 32:16

Your share of the national debt from the federal government as a US citizen is $106,000 per person. So it's just. And ours is declining and theirs is going up. We have the lowest number of state workers, state government employees per capita in the entire United States. And so that's just the reality. That was the reality before this session. That's the reality after this session. And so the posturing and some of the stuff that that was done to drag this 45 days, that was theatrics. (32:16–32:25)

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Asserts that Florida has the lowest number of state government employees per capita in the U.S.

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