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Ron DeSantis: “We now have the lowest per capita debt in the country.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Holds A Press Briefing To Tout K-12 Progress Monitoring Results

Published | Video Starts at 12:26

So if you take all the debt in the history of the state of Florida, from the 1840s to the present, just since my term in office, my two terms in office, we've paid down 51% of the state's total debt. So We now have the lowest per capita debt in the country. I think it's like if you said what every Floridian owed, if we had to just pay it, which, you know, we won't have to do that. (12:26–12:30)

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