we wanted school choice. i had a republican legislature that wouldn t do it. we pushed hard to get that done. that doesn t mean that we shouldn t do it across the country but what we have to do is we have to make it state-centric. we have got to get the programs down to the state level. we ve got to let the focus be on teachers. teachers right now have to be the guidance counselors, pastors, nurses, and everything in between and they have to teach to a. that s not what teachers want. they want to do what they were taught to do and that means math, science, reading, history, english, arts. that s it. schools can t be all things to all kids. they need to let the parents parent. they need to let teachers teach. when we need to go back to the basics thank you. thank you. i want to move on that word salad is the problem. she says she always supported school choice and she failed to deliver. she blames other people. leadership is about getting things done. stop making excuses. make i
afford food, cars, and housing. what is the single most important policy that you would implement as president to make the essentials in americans lives more important? i think we have to acknowledge that republicans and democrats have both done this. i mean, the fact that they ve done all of this wasteful spending, they did a $2.2 trillion covid stimulus bill that expanded welfare that s now left us with 80 million americans on medicaid, 42 million americans on food stamp. that s a third of our country. what i will do, i think it s time we have an accountant in the white house. we have to have someone that respects taxpayer dollars, and we ll start by clawing back $100 billion of unspent covid dollars that are still out there. we ll go instead of 87,000 irs agents going after middle america, we ll go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of covid fraud. 1 out of every $7. if 8% of our budget is interest, quit borrowing. cut up the credit cards. i had to balance a budget as gove
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
it s way too low. we can play this song and dance. she has a record. she makes statements. part of the problem with her, her candidacy, now she is getting scrutiny, she s got this problem with ballistic podiatry, shooting herself in the foot every other day, saying things she doesn t even take questions from people. governor haley, you want to raise the retirement age for younger americans but you have not said what that age should be. should voters in their 20s plan on working until their 70? first of all, he hasn t answered the fact he voted to raise the retirement age to 70 three times. he can call me whatever name he wants. it doesn t change the fact that ron s lying because ron s losing. everybody in the country sees it from what it is. so what i ll tell you is, yes, we are going to take we are going to be responsible with it and we re going to those in our 20s. when i said the retirement age was too low, again where he is lying, it s because if you go and you can go to desa
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