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Ron DeSantis: “We launched the Moving Florida Forward initiative a few…”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis Celebrates Progress On Traffic Congestion Relief Projects In Florida

Published October 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:25

Well, what good is that doing you if you're sitting in traffic for another 15 years on some of this stuff? And so We launched the Moving Florida Forward initiative a few years ago. I think we actually may have been down in Polk county when we did that at one of the other facilities, which was. Which was good. (01:25–01:29)

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“Just since I've been and been governor this fiscal year will bring us to about 50% of [Florida's taxpayer finance debt] being paid off…”
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“Our debt is the lowest per capita in the country.”
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“New York City has 8 million people. We have 23 and a half million people. Our budget's less than New York City's budget.”
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“New York State, 19 and a half million people. Compared to Florida, we have about 23 and a half million people, millions more than them. And…”
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“This will be the nation's first advanced air mobility test track.”
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“We plowed billions and billions of dollars [into Moving Florida Forward].”
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“With the most recent budget that I signed at the end of June for this fiscal year we have been doing something for like really the last…”
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“We've retired many billions of dollars in debt and have cut that but we've also saved billions of dollars in interest.”
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“We don't have income tax. We got rid of business rent tax. We have no sales tax on baby items.”
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“A lot of those projects in Polk and Osceola and the western part of Orange county have been accelerated through moving Florida forward.”
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“Some of the stuff inside Champions Gate, some of the stuff inside Polk county, that's going to be done 5, 10, even 15 years ahead of…”
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“We just announced the i75, I 275 in Pinellas County. It's going to be huge to widen that kind of like north of where the Tropicana Field is…”
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“I am pleased to be able to announce additional i4 expansion we're going to be able to incorporate with the Moving Florida Forward…”
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“The 17 miles of the new lanes in Hillsborough county from I75 to county line Road that is going to make a big difference for folks that are…”
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“That was not even scheduled to start until, what, 2037. It was supposed to start in 2037. So we're accelerating it by a decade.”
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“We are pleased to be able to announce a new truck parking facility in polk county at the I4 and Polk Parkway interchange.”
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“Florida is going to be a place where to be a testing ground for this new technology.”
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“We launched this moving Florida forward in 2023. We're over $7 billion in added investment.”
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“The total amount in terms of the number of projects has been over 20 major infrastructure projects that have been expedited years ahead of…”
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“In Florida we want to get ahead of the game and so that's what we're doing.”
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“The contra flow doesn't work, and so they do shoulder use and they expand lanes.”
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“US 301 realignment in Sumter County. The villages, very, very growing part of the state of Florida.”
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“We got the best record in the NFL with the Bucs.”
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“You have usf. They have a chance to make the college playoff if they just win out.”
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