Ron DeSantis has now embraced a new game plan: to run to the right of Trump by taking on a pie-in-the-sky anti-government agenda.
is still failing to chip away at the massive leadholds over him in the presidential primary. This appears to be why the Florida governor has now embraced a new game plan: to run to the right of Trump by taking on a pie-in-the-sky anti-government agenda.
Desperately in need of a momentum boost, DeSantis said Wednesday that he would quite literally eliminate four federal agencies if elected president: the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education. “If Congress would work with me on doing that, we’ll be able to reduce the size and scope of government,” the governorin an appearance on Fox News. “If Congress won’t go that far, I’m going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life.”
Of course, liquidating these agencies is not as simple as signing an executive order. He would need congressional authorization to do so––no doubt an improbable ask. Nonetheless, abolishing the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Education, and, most importantly, neutering the IRS, are changes that far-right activists have wanted for years, particularly during the Obama era.
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