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Ron DeSantis: “We will have retired more than 50% of [Florida's taxpayer…”

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Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants

Published December 3, 2025 | Video Starts at 21:00

So I get ability to do grants, and a lot of times it's working with local communities to create good infrastructure so that you're able to develop really. We will have retired more than 50% of [Florida's taxpayer supported debt] just in my tenure as governor. And so that's a really big deal. And then we now have the. Great things with respect to water supply. (21:00–21:06)

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Asserts that over 50% of Florida's taxpayer-supported debt will be retired during DeSantis's tenure.

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“You now have a billion dollars that's going to be rebated from Progressive to auto policies in Florida.”
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“That will cut an estimated almost 5 million pounds of nitrogen and almost 1 million pounds of phosphorus each and every year.”
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“Even though we have millions of more people than New York, our budget is less than half of New York's budget.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 19:57-20:03
“New York City's budget is more than the budget of the entire state of Florida.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 20:10-20:16
“Your share as a Floridian would be about 450 bucks.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 21:16-21:20
“Your share as an American of the federal debt I think would be about 110 grand.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 21:19-21:25
“We want to provide relief to people in any way that we can.”
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“We've done a lot at the state, no tax on baby items so people can raise families.”
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“We also don't have an income tax and that's good. And we're not going to have one.”
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“We've done so much on sales tax that all the essentials are basically exempt.”
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“We've even done things like toll relief over the years where we were rebating 50% of the tolls for our commuters.”
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“The local property tax [in Florida] has really been a big burden.”
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“We're working very closely with folks who want to get something done in the legislature to put something on the ballot.”
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“It's got to go in the November 2026 ballot.”
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“State Farm announced a 10% reduction in [auto insurance rates].”
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“16 new companies [are entering the market] for homeowners insurance.”
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“Florida Peninsula announced, I think, an 8% reduction [in insurance rates].”
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“Citizens insurance, you know, when they have 1.3 million people on it, well, you know, that's not a solvent system.”
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“So many have now gotten private policies.”
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“We're probably the only state in the country that would be able to do this in a really bold and meaningful way.”
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“No storms actually hit the entire continental United States.”
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“In 2018, you had massive algae blooms [in Southwest Florida].”
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“Two years before that on the east coast of Florida, places like Stewart, massive algae blooms because of discharges from Lake Okeechobee.”
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“We've funded almost 1200 projects across the state to reduce harmful nutrients in Florida's waterways.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 12:54-13:06
“Since I've been governor, funded almost 1200 projects across the state to reduce harmful nutrients in Florida's waterways.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 12:55-13:06
“300 of those [projects] are already complete and producing really measurable results.”
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“We have an agreement with the Trump administration where they've delegated because, you know, it's supposed to be state, federal.”
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“We tried to get Biden to step into the game here and he didn't do it.”
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“We have two major Everglades projects that we started that would not have probably started for this decade had we not done it.”
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“We're going to be awarding over $112 million in grants to improve water quality and supply across Florida's Gulf coast and throughout…”
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“We're going to be awarding over $112 million in grants to improve water quality and supply across Florida's Gulf coast and throughout…”
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“Once fully operational, these projects are expected to produce almost 94 million gallons of water per day.”
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“This will bring us to $430 million for 147 different springs restoration projects since I took office.”
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“Since then, we've received $75 million in appropriations and have supported 68 projects that detect, prevent, cleanup, and mitigate harmful…”
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“We, from a spending level, we're either the first or second lowest per capita state spending in the entire United States of America.”
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“Our number of state employees per capita is the lowest of anybody in the United States of America.”
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“We have one of the lowest, if not the lowest state tax burden. We're always in the top two or three on that of anywhere in the United…”
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“We now have the lowest per capita debt in the country.”
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“We now have the lowest per capita debt in the country.”
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“We've accelerated infrastructure projects by billions and billions of dollars.”
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“We've accelerated infrastructure projects by billions and billions of dollars.”
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“We've put in more money at the state level for teacher salaries than has ever been done in the history of the state of Florida.”
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“We've also done major tax cuts.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 22:27-22:30
“We promised a billion dollars more my first four years than had been done previous. And we did way more than that.”
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“Salinity levels in Florida Bay are in good shape.”
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“People see the flora and fauna in the Everglades more.”
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“We're going after the pythons still.”
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“The Supreme Court's VRA decision is going to impact the current map.”
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“Florida got undercounted, Texas got undercounted, they should have had an extra seat.”
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“The Supreme Court, they heard argument on it in October.”
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“Upheld by the Florida Supreme Court and upheld or upheld? Yeah. In federal. Against federal challenge.”
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“There were two appraisals done that had basically $82 million.”
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“If you had damage from the hurricanes, you have a right to rebuild as it was.”
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“We don't want the state to be a concrete jungle. We want to have. So that's why we did the Florida Wildlife Corps.”
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“We've done hundreds of thousands of acres on that one.”
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“By the time I leave office, we will have done more on that than anybody's been able to do.”
Governor DeSantis Announces Over $112 Million in Water Resources Grants | Uploaded December 3, 2025 | 52:55-53:02
“The agriculture, preserving the agriculture with this program, you know, it's grown on me.”
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