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Rick Scott: “So here's the numbers. So, the population in the last five years has gone up 1.8 percent, and your budget would take the…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2023
So here's the numbers. So, the population in the last five years has gone up 1.8 percent, and your budget would take the budget up 55 percent.
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Rick Scott
Republican · Florida

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Scott highlights the disparity between population growth and budget increase.

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