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Ron DeSantis: “We've paid down debt, we've got very good and generous…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Calls for Special Legislative Session to Finish the Budget

Published | Video Starts at 28:21

And we have the lowest number of state government employees per capita in the United States of America. America. And so we have a very lean budget. We've paid down debt, we've got very good and generous budget reserves, including the rainy day fund. But yet we've done so many transformational things from education, what we've done with universities, what we've done with environmental restoration, what we've done with the accelerating infrastructure and doing that in a really, really big way. (28:21–28:28)

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Asserts that Florida has reduced its debt and maintains substantial budget reserves.

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