'Bureaucracy Has Gotten Out Of Control': DeSantis Advocates For Federal Balanced Budget Amendment

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During a Press Event in Boise, Idaho, Gov. DeSantis (R-FL) joined Gov. Brad Little (R-ID) and Lt. Gov. Scott Bedke (R-ID) to promote President Trump's Federal Balanced Budget Amendment.

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00:00Yes.

00:01Thank you for being here.

00:02I want to follow up on Joe.

00:03I'm curious if you, you know, I hear you on the importance of efficiency and responsible

00:04spending, but I'm curious, you know, here in Idaho, we've seen some conditions cut

00:05that may relate to fighting wildfires and providing care to veterans.

00:06Do you have any misgivings that those may go too far and cut, you know, critical people

00:07in a critical way?

00:19So I, having talked to President Trump about this, President Trump understands that as

00:25much as we have governments too big, as much as the bureaucracy has gotten out of control,

00:30he understands that there are certain functions that the federal government should be performing

00:35and performing well.

00:36You know, for example, there was this dust up about the national weather service.

00:40You know, president understands he's dealt with these hurricanes like we do in Florida.

00:44He understood.

00:45So he's like, no, no, no, we need that.

00:46So I think it'll all work out because I know President Trump's view is government's doing

00:52a lot of things it shouldn't do, and those are things that we should focus on, but some

00:56of the things that are core functions, well, we should do.

00:59Now there's things that happen within those core functions.

01:02For example, the department of defense, I'm a big supporter of, I'm a veteran, but at

01:07the same time, that's a big bureaucracy and there's a lot of tail bureaucracy and non-tooth,

01:15the tip of the sphere that has grown over the years.

01:18So paring back that actually frees up more money to be able to do more in terms of lethality.

01:25So I think the president totally gets all that.

01:28You're going to see different things that are going to happen here or there, but I think

01:31ultimately it will land in a spot that the American people are going to support.

01:36You know, it's unfortunate, and this is working its way through the courts, and I personally

01:40think the president has Article II authority to hire and fire people within the executive

01:44branch.

01:47That's not how it's been viewed in the more, maybe the last 20, 30 years, but you end up

01:51in this kind of weird situation where probationary employees, even if they're really good, they

01:57can be laid off, but someone who's been there, who has tenure or whatever the protections,

02:02even if they're not good employees, it's much harder to get rid of them.

02:06I don't think that that makes sense, but I think they're working through a lot of this

02:09stuff in the courts, and I think you're going to end up seeing this land in a very, very

02:14good spot.

02:15These are things that, as we have the lowest number of state employees per capita in America

02:20and Florida, and while we're proud of that, we also have invested strongly in disaster

02:26response and emergency management.

02:28We've invested strongly in law enforcement.

02:32We've invested strongly in education.

02:34We've invested strongly in conservation, and I'm doing the biggest environmental restoration

02:39in the world with the Everglades, so we've really focused on things that really matter,

02:44and I think that's President Trump's view as well.

02:48Some of this stuff, I know there's a blip here, a blip there.

02:51Some of this stuff, I think, quite frankly, is not presented accurately by some of the

02:54outlets, but that being said, I do think it'll land in a really good spot.

'Bureaucracy Has Gotten Out Of Control': DeSantis Advocates For Federal Balanced Budget Amendment

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