and why it is they re saying senior citizens can no longer afford the live in florida. so that s the first thing i ll say. we don t need him doing that tower country. when it comes to the gas tax, when we eliminate that federal tax, the money is collected in the states and they send to it the feds. the feds attack a lot of strings to it and send it back. 75% comes from the state. 25% comes from the federal government. what they do when they add those strings is they pay for a lot of things that aren t roads, green spaces, sidewalks, all of those things, but they attack strings. i want that money to stay in states. i want the states to be able to decide how to spend it. i don t want washington bureaucrats deciding what we need for scenery and green space and all those other things. i want every state make decisions on how they spend their road spending instead of the federal government. governor desantis, your response. she kind of admitted that she did try to raise the gas tax. she
in the republican party right now and that is what is the role of government and should it use its power to go after businesses and private entities that take actions that don t align with conservative values? governor desantis, you used your powers to take on disney after he criticized an education bill you signed into law. how does that square with the traditional conservative view that small limited government is best? the proper role of government if it means anything is to protect our kids and i have stood for the innocence of our kids. it is wrong to sexualize the curriculum, wrong look, my wife and i have a first grader, kindergartner and preschooler. it s wrong to tell a kindergartner like disney wanted to do that you can change your gender or a third grader you are born in the wrong body. they are the 800 pound gorilla
moscow. we re going to choose the marcellus shale over beijing. energy independence is good for consumers. it s good to reduce inflation. it s one of the best thing we can do for national security. we ll do that on day one and we re going to reverse biden green new deal and the electric vehicle mandates will save the american automobile. thank you, governor. this has been one of the biggest years for illegal border crossing into the united states. last month alone 225,000 migrants crossed, a record high overwhelming the border patrol resources that are already stretched thin. mayors across the country say their cities are being pushed to a breaking point. governor desantis, former president trump famously promised to build a wall on the southern border. he obviously did not get that done. you have promised to finish the job. how will you succeed where he failed? we will build the wall. we will actually have mexico pay for it in the way that i thought donald trump was. we re going t
going to handle the economy when it comes to the white house? and he goes and he he has been demeaning me over and over again, telling lies, desantis lies dot-com because he thinks it makes him look bigger. you campaigned for president, you are invisible in new hampshire, invisible in south carolina, in fifth place, you have only you got $150 million and you have gone down in the polls in iowa. why should we think you could manage or do anything in this country? thank you. governor desantis. this is a great window into leadership. she focus odd on a lot of political process stuff, things that no voter cares about and couldn t tell you why she failed to deliver school choice to people in her state after she promised it. she says somehow that is indicative no. leadership is producing results. we ve produced the results in florida. we did universal school choice. cut taxes, ban, on and on down the line, everything i promised,
they don t follow the laws to come into this country, they won t follow the laws when they are in this country. and we have to start treating this like it is. this is putting harm on our schools, on our hospitals, taxpayers are paying for it. you see these mayors are now upset about it. the only reason eric adams is now upset. why? he shouldn t be a sanctuary city then. that s why we have to defund sanctuary cities. now governor abbott finally did to them what s been happening to texas for so long. we ve got to put an end to this. it s dangerous. thank you, governor. fentanyl governor desantis? [ applause ] there are more than ten million undocumented immigrants already living in the united states, according to pew research. will any of them be allowed to stay in the united states under your administration? the number of people that will be amnestied when i am president will be zero. we cannot do an amnesty in this country. first of all, it s going to cause more people to wan