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Ron DeSantis: “We put in a thing for 608 million.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 43:29

Is it accurate that the cost of the state in front of the cost of Alligator Alcatraz is at about a billion dollars? And if not, what is that number? I don't think that's actually accurate. I mean, I think that We put in a thing for 608 million. And then there were other things because, you know, we had the sanitation, because, remember, people were trying to say it was going to go in the Everglades. (43:29–43:33)

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Asserts that Florida allocated 608 million dollars for a specific initiative.

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