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Ron DeSantis: “Your share of the federal debt as a U.S. citizen, I think…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Governor DeSantis Speaks at U.S. Caribbean Maritime and Ports Forum in Miami Beach

Published | Video Starts at 06:19

And so we now have the lowest per capita debt of any state in the United States. And I think your share as a Florida resident would be about $400 per person. Your share of the federal debt as a U.S. citizen, I think would be about $120,000. And so it's a much different situation. And ours is going down, theirs is going up. And I'd always tell people there's the clock in New York City, where they would always have the national debt adding so going up. (06:19–06:25)

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Asserts that the per capita federal debt for U.S. citizens is about $120,000.

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