DeSantis: I’ll Abolish Education, Energy,
Commerce Depts — And The IRS
Daily Wire,
by
Hank Berrien
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/29/2023 10:18:40 AM
Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis declared that as president he would eliminate the cabinet-level Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, and the IRS.
DeSantis, who has delivered on multiple promises in his state during his tenure, made the comments while speaking to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, who asked him if there were any federal agencies he would attempt to eliminate.“We would do Education, we would do Commerce, we’d do Energy, and we would do IRS,” DeSantis declared.
“If Congress will work with me on doing that, we’ll be able to reduce the size and scope of government,” he continued.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/29/2023 10:28:58 AM (No. 1501871)
Didn't some other politician say he would do something similar in a previous presidential race and then forget which departments he was going after? Definitely sounds familiar. Have doubts that DeSantis would actually carry it out. When is the last time a government agency has been shutdown?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
thomthomp 6/29/2023 10:35:34 AM (No. 1501876)
Great idea! President Trump can make De Santis the Swanp Czar and let him get after it.
26 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 6/29/2023 10:40:08 AM (No. 1501880)
Media's hate for DeSantis will equal or exceed their hate for Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/29/2023 10:44:22 AM (No. 1501885)
Promises, promises. The President doesn't have much power but I would love to see a blanket shutdown and then negotiate what must be started back up. Very slow negotiations.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/29/2023 10:45:35 AM (No. 1501889)
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Is he pandering or does he really mean it??
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And the FBI?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 6/29/2023 10:47:51 AM (No. 1501892)
The caveat is “if Congress will work with me”. The devil is in the details.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Muguy 6/29/2023 11:02:02 AM (No. 1501903)
I'm with Governor DeSantis in Spirit--
I want him to be the messanger to speak to the issues that the media WILL NOT TOUCH and 'republicans' are afraid to even mention.
The reality is that as Poster #3 mentioned the various media' HATES DeSantis with a passion and would prefer to have Mr. Trump be the one to secure the nomination so they can get a sympathetic activist Federal Judge to keep whacking at finding some loophole of strange interpretation of made up vague 'law' to take him down.
If there was no way for Mr. Trump to overcome the lawfare and Justice shopping, then DeSantis would be the one to be the front runner. ALL other candidates do not measure up, or are plants and NOT reliable 'dark horses' to even run, and most are a joke!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BRDG 6/29/2023 11:08:02 AM (No. 1501906)
Like with Disney he SAYS one thing but does not follow through.
Obama was groomed and marketed like a Pfizer vaccine.
VuJaDe
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 6/29/2023 11:16:11 AM (No. 1501920)
Yeah, sure. RdS is too stupid to understand that the resident has very little control over the bureaucracy. And any success in paring back will be overridden by some Podunk 'judge' who decides he doesn't agree and imposes his ruling across the country.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
49 Ford 6/29/2023 11:17:55 AM (No. 1501922)
He is promising to revoke their cabinet level status and do more if congress provides him with the requisite authority. Sounds realistic, no pie-in-the-sky pandering here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/29/2023 11:19:18 AM (No. 1501923)
I am with him in spirit but Gov DeSantis must remember when he was in Congress and Trump was President how "supportive" a Republican controlled House and Senate were of President Trump.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/29/2023 11:24:58 AM (No. 1501930)
Tentative beginning - - but - - how about getting rid of Labor, Housing, Health, and Transportation?
And though I love President Trump - - when is he going to propose the same things?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/29/2023 11:43:49 AM (No. 1501965)
Now we're getting somewhere...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 6/29/2023 11:50:15 AM (No. 1501971)
He left out a few. The DOJ,FBI, and Homeland inSecurity.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/29/2023 11:50:28 AM (No. 1501972)
DeSantis is making promises he cannot keep.
Not a good sign,
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/29/2023 11:59:24 AM (No. 1501978)
The Democrats and the Rinos won't allow that.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/29/2023 12:14:29 PM (No. 1501989)
If the IRS is eliminated it will put thousands of IRS goons out of work. It would put tax preparation businesses out of work. Of course the government would have to find other ways to finance boondoggles. A national sales tax is a possibility. Either way you have to pay. What else is new?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/29/2023 12:19:40 PM (No. 1501994)
I love it but I don't think anyone could do it. Too much vested interest in all gov agencies, and who could get the house and senate to go along?
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If DeSantis wins the nomination, he gets my vote. Same for Trump.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/29/2023 12:58:03 PM (No. 1502020)
Oh please ...
When I first came to the USA in 1993 Republicans in any given election year were going to abolish the IRS.
They were going to kill heir cash cow.
If that's the best you've got Ron I'll stick with Trump.
He actually would abolish the IRS.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/29/2023 1:09:24 PM (No. 1502028)
That's NEVER going to happen.
The Dept. of Education was established under Carter, and Ronald Reagan wanted to cancel it, and despite only being established less than 1 year prior, he was unable to stop the inertia of growing the Federal government and all of the jobs it was going to create.
The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 6/29/2023 1:20:47 PM (No. 1502039)
Sounds great. They may not exist by the time you get there, Ron. 2028.
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He forgot to add, "A chicken in every pot!"
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 6/29/2023 1:39:29 PM (No. 1502060)
If you're aligned with the Bushes then I don't believe these promises DeSantis
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JustCause 6/29/2023 1:52:16 PM (No. 1502074)
Pure Rhetoric for the Conservative masses.
Key word: 'If'... DeSantis declared. “If Congress will work with me on doing that
100% political b.s.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/29/2023 2:13:23 PM (No. 1502082)
Frankly I find it very disappointing to see so many conservatives bad-mouthing DeSantis just because they want Trump to win. I do too, but that doesn't compel me to foolishly knock DeSantis on everything he says, and especially when he proposes something that should be a stated aspiration of other Republican candidates too.
He has already proved his competence and commitment to conservative action as the Governor of Florida, one of our largest and now arguably our best run state. He has successfully fought Disney, the education unions, the DOJ, and several other parties on woke indoctrination, parent rights, vaccine shutdowns, masking mandates, etc. THAT is competent governing. It should be acknowledged and respected.
If he's not your preferred first choice for President, fine. But don't play juvenile games by bad-mouthing him. We're going to need everyone to ultimately take back our country. And DeSantis is definitely doing his share.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/29/2023 2:28:39 PM (No. 1502095)
Where's the kitchen sink? I don't dislike DeSantis, but this type of campaigning seems kinda sleazy these days. Has he abolished the state agencies that do similar "work"?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/29/2023 2:35:30 PM (No. 1502101)
These are admirable goals, but he can't deliver. No one elected to the Presidency can. These interests are too entrenched.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 6/29/2023 2:45:25 PM (No. 1502108)
Ronaldo Magnus didn't get rid of the Dept of No-Education like promised either.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 6/29/2023 3:48:06 PM (No. 1502145)
I think most of that is on Trumps agenda. Throw in the Post Office, Census and a few more. Great.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
49 Ford 6/29/2023 4:00:58 PM (No. 1502154)
Eloquent Voice of Reason on aisle 27.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 6/29/2023 4:03:09 PM (No. 1502156)
If Trump had said this very same thing, I wonder how many responses would have been the same. I can’t wait to hear what Trump has to say about this.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/29/2023 7:17:15 PM (No. 1502270)
Good start, but don't forget disbanding all 17 Secret Police Gestapo agencies in the "intelligence community".
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mifla 6/30/2023 5:06:47 AM (No. 1502488)
I remember JFK (the President, not the other one), saying that you think that you can accomplish so much until you get there and reality hits.
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