DeSantis Fires Back at McCarthy: ‘We Are Different ... in Florida, We Run Budget Surpluses’

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DeSANTIS: "Well, look, I would say, I mean, I think that if you look at what’s happened with D.C. Republicans, they worked very closely — you know, look, Donald Trump, he supported Kevin McCarthy very strongly for speaker. I don’t think he would have won the speaker vote. Donald Trump was instrumental in him earning that speaker’s gavel, and they worked hand-in-glove really throughout his whole presidency, they were on the same team on every major spending bill that came down the pike, and they ended up together adding $7.8 trillion to our national debt, Never in a four-year period has that much been added than what they did together. And so, he said that we’re different. We are different, because in Florida we run budget surpluses, we’ve paid down almost 25 percent of our state's debt just since I’ve been governor. All the debt, all the way up for all of Florida’s history, we’ve knocked off almost 25 percent of it. So it’s a much different approach to where we’re doing it right.”