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Ron DeSantis: “You've saved like almost $2 billion between principal and…”

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Governor DeSantis Awards $311 Million for Infrastructure Repair in 37 Florida Communities

Published | Video Starts at 01:26

And so just by doing that, not only is the debt, you pay down the debt, we now have the lowest per capita debt in the country, but You've saved like almost $2 billion between principal and interest [by retiring debt]. to be able to do it. You know, there's not a lot of states that are able to do that. I mean you see like California running massive deficits. (01:26–01:32)

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