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Ron DeSantis: “We've probably saved, you know, two, three billion dollars…”

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Governor DeSantis Announces Groundbreaking of I-95/U.S. 1 Interchange—1 Year Ahead of Schedule

Published | Video Starts at 06:50

So we go in buy a lot of times at a discount, the bonds, retire them, you save on principle and then you save on interest. So We've probably saved, you know, two, three billion dollars just in the last few years by doing the debt reduction the way we've done it. But just think about it, in New York City they would have the national debt clock. And I remember like when I was a kid, oh, it was like $4 trillion. (06:50–06:58)

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Asserts that Florida has saved two to three billion dollars through debt reduction strategies.

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