Ron DeSantis floats axing federal agencies

Ron DeSantis floats axing federal agencies

Ron DeSantis is ready to shrink the federal government by eliminating a number of its functions and Departments.

“We would do (The Department of) Education, we would do Commerce, we do Energy and we would do (the) IRS. And so if Congress will work with me on doing that, we’ll be able to reduce the size and scope of government,” DeSantis said on Fox News.

The Governor and 2024 presidential candidate quickly allowed that the legislative branch may not be open to those cuts.

“But what I’m also going to do,” he told host Martha MacCallum, “is be prepared if Congress won’t go that far.”

The Governor suggested that those parts of the government could be weaponized in the culture war.

“I’m going to...

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