Policy

When undocumented truck driver Harjinder Singh killed three Floridians in a traffic accident, highway troopers didn't immediately arrest him because they didn't have probable cause, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday. Florida Highway Patrol had to conduct an investigation to determine what actually occurred because all of the witnesses were dead, DeSantis said at a Tampa […]

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) commented on the ruling ordering the South Florida Detention Facility, also referred to as Alligator Alcatraz, calling the "internment camp" as being "cruel." “This Everglades internment camp was a cruel, wasteful, destructive stunt from start to finish,” she said. “The judge made the right call to shut it down. […]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the federal government Monday to ban California and Washington from issuing commercial licenses if these states have encouraged undocumented migrants to drive commercially. Uthmeier's call comes weeks after an undocumented Indian national with a California-issued CDL made an illegal U-turn, killing three Floridians. Mass public outrage led the federal […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that an ongoing multi-agency operation in the Florida Panhandle has yielded over 200 arrests of undocumented migrants, with more expected by the end of the day. 45 Florida Highway Patrol officers worked with 20 federal authorities—from agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement—to […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis isn't worried about Baker County residents opposing his new "Deportation Depot" center for undocumented immigrants. Why? Because he won by "Saddam Hussein margins" in the last election. "I got 90% of the vote in Baker County, so they're probably excited about ['Deportation Depot']. And I think if you look at like these […]

Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) has reintroduced his bipartisan Safe Air on Airplanes Act, which phases out "bleed air" systems from commercial aircraft. Rep. Frost first introduced the bill last May after one of his constituents, a flight attendant named Shannon DeWitt, was a victim of a fume event while serving on an airplane. As we […]

A coalition of Senate and House Democrats is pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for more information regarding the uses of the controversial Everglades Detention Facility, also known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (D) spearheaded a letter to the heads of DHS, Immigration and Customs […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has announced that he and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will collaborate on an effort to correct the 2020 U.S. Census potentially awarding Florida additional seats in the House of Representatives. Gov. DeSantis released a statement claiming that the previous Biden Administration was aware that Florida’s 2020 Census data was […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending Florida's new Lieutenant Governor to California to "take possession" of the undocumented truck driver who killed three people in a traffic incident, he announced Wednesday. Jay Collins, a retired Green Beret and the newly-appointed Lieutenant Governor of Florida, is en route to California as of 3:00 p.m. Thursday to bring […]

Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) discussed the CHIPS Act in a recent appearance on Fox Business's Kudlow, calling it a "terrible piece of legislation" and arguing that deregulation is a better means of getting companies to invest in the United States. Rep. Donalds's remarks respond to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's recent proposal that the federal government […]

Florida’s Board of Education decided Wednesday that the Alachua school board violated the First Amendment after one member celebrated Hulk Hogan’s death and another tried to throw a dissenter out of a meeting.  The Alachua County School Board will have to undergo training on First Amendment rules in partnership with the Department of Education and […]

Florida Representative Kathy Castor (D) heavily criticized the Republican majority in Congress as they aim to cut clean energy and incentives. “It makes no sense to rip away clean energy savings at a time of rising electric bills, rising demand, rising pollution, and rising temperatures,” Castor said.  President Donald Trump announced last month that clean […]

Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) made a statement putting California on blast for its “lawlessness” following an accident where a semi-truck driver made an illegal U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike, causing the deaths of three people in Fort Pierce. “It should make every American furious to see California’s lawlessness costing three innocent people their lives. This […]

Representatives Cory Mills (R-FL), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), and Brian Mast (R-FL) expressed support for President Donald Trump's proposed new Census excluding illegal aliens in comments to The Floridian. Last week, President Trump announced that he was directing the Department of Commerce to conduct a new census that would not include illegal aliens as part of the […]

Since taking over as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), Chairman Evan Power, who is currently on diaper duty, has transformed the once-boring and uncreated state party into what nothing less than an aggressive and funny Democratic Party-beatdown of an organization. The RPOF's latest venture into political comedy is their The Home Depot-inspired […]

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) and Representative Randy Fine (R-FL) have introduced a bicameral bill giving flexibility to sturgeon farmers. For additional context, several species of sturgeon are listed as endangered due to overfishing for caviar, meat, and other products, or populations have been reduced due to waterway construction and pollution in their native habitats. However, […]

Representative Aaron Bean's (R-FL) TRACE Act has gained traction in Congress after Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a companion version of the bill in the Senate. The TRACE Act, short for the Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act, requires K-12 schools to notify parents of how and where foreign funding affects their […]

Florida Republican Rep. María Elvira-Salazar praised the Trump administration as it moves to impose visa restrictions on several government officials complicit in the Cuban regime’s labor export program. Rep. Salazar has been an outspoken critic of the Cuban regime, calling Cuban doctors involved with the labor export program “Modern-Day Slaves.”  “I’ve been calling this out […]