{"id":1960244,"date":"2023-06-29T12:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-reveals-he-would-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-the-irs\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T16:18:32","slug":"desantis-reveals-he-would-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-reveals-he-would-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis to Cut 3 Cabinet Departments and IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-reveals-he-would-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-the-irs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1960244&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hell hath no fury like a swamp creature in D.C. being told that its bit of the swamp is being taken away.<\/h2>\n<p>And now, plenty of liberals are howling at the potential that, if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wins the presidency, he\u2019s going to be draining four major parts of the Beltway marsh.<\/p>\n<h3>During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/desantis-outlines-drug-smuggling-policy-cut-through-wall-end-up-stone-cold-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News\u2019<\/a> Martha MacCallum on Wednesday, she asked him, \u201cAre you in favor of eliminating any agencies?\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>The Republican presidential candidate said he would work to abolish the departments of Commerce, Education and Energy, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/second-hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-steps-forward-alleges-deeply-troubling-unacceptable-occurrences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would do Education, we would do Commerce, we\u2019d do Energy, and we would do IRS,\u201d DeSantis responded when asked if he would reduce the size of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Congress will work with me on doing that, we\u2019ll be able to reduce the size and scope of government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what I\u2019m also going to do, Martha, is be prepared, if Congress won\u2019t go that far, I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum: \u201cAre you in favor of eliminating any agencies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL): \u201cWe would do Education, we would do Commerce, we\u2019d do Energy, and we would do IRS.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oxo2nfAoVn\">pic.twitter.com\/oxo2nfAoVn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1674142959263178752?\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/desantis-says-eliminate-four-federal-agencies-elected-president-rcna91733#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a> reported that \u201cDeSantis\u2019 campaign didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for further details about his remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, we can at least report that he managed to stick the landing, unlike certain Republican presidential candidates who wanted to see departments on the chopping block:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cOops\u201d: Rick Perry once forgot the name of the agency he\u2019s been nominated to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PhGGEK5m5P\">https:\/\/t.co\/PhGGEK5m5P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zwLyVG6gXP\">pic.twitter.com\/zwLyVG6gXP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/808772800815108096?\">December 13, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only did DeSantis one-up former Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s 2012 pledge to do away with three federal agencies if elected president, he actually remembered them.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this occasioned the kind of mild paroxysms and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-reveals-he-would-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-the-irs\/\" title=\"DeSantis to Cut 3 Cabinet Departments and IRS\">furrowed-brow tsk-tsking<\/a> that happens in the media any time a Republican candidate suggests seriously reducing the size of government.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News went with the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-announces-immigration-plan-vows-go-trump-use-deadly-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeSantis<\/a>-goes-hard-right angle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis has sought to distinguish himself from Republican front-runner Donald Trump, in part by moving further to the right of the former president on a variety of issues,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cOn Tuesday, he issued an unexpected veto, rejecting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-embraces-democrats-least-favorite-legal-defense\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Embraces Democrats\u2019 Least Favorite Legal Defense\">criminal justice reform bill<\/a> that had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-watchdog-calls-for-probe-into-house-democrat-kim-schriers-stock-transactions\/\" title=\"Ethics Watchdog Calls for Probe into House Democrat Kim Schrier's Stock Transactions\">received substantial bipartisan support<\/a> in the Republican-led state Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/ron-desantis-abolish-irs-education-energy-b2366072.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independent<\/a>, not exactly getting it right with its headline, put it this way: \u201cDeSantis says if elected he would abolish education, energy and IRS departments to fight \u2018woke ideology.\u2019\u201d I guess the Independent\u2019s Abe Asher heard the departments DeSantis wanted to eliminate, heard the words \u201cwoke ideology,\u201d and decided that was the reason DeSantis wanted to reduce the scope of the federal government. It helps to listen to the words in-between sometimes, but oh well.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/desantis-outlines-truly-wild-plan-to-eliminate-federal-agencies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, where the headline wasn\u2019t wrong but it was still 100-percent Daily Beast-tastic: \u201cDeSantis Outlines Truly Wild Plan to Eliminate Federal Agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not that Twitter is a body of policy experts, but neither is The Daily Beast, and many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liquor-company-asks-consumers-not-to-buy-its-rittenhouse-rye-brand-to-celebrate-kyle-rittenhouse-verdict\/\" title=\"Liquor Company Asks Consumers Not to Buy Its \u2018Rittenhouse Rye\u2019 Brand To Celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict\">social media users didn\u2019<\/a>t quite seem to think it was so \u201ctruly wild\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Why in the Alligator Tears is the IRS at the bottom of this list??????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Logan (@JamesOnasLogan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesOnasLogan\/status\/1674155592791867392?\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6CGIX9FJEb\">pic.twitter.com\/6CGIX9FJEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VETTER Days (@vetter_days) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vetter_days\/status\/1674181973319774211?\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That\u2019s a good start, but he\u2019s missing the FBI, ATF, CIA, NSA, and most of the EPA too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Balkaniser  (@TheBalkanist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBalkanist\/status\/1674145883544252422?\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Abolish the ATF.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salty Sea  (@SaltySeaFl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaltySeaFl\/status\/1674211023329345536?\">June 29, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And even when the responses were negative, it helps to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/right-lincoln-project-rinos-praise-pelosi-sick-3-word-nickname\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right sort of enemies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Such an unserious person.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1674150700509437958?\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lincoln-project-constantly-talked-trumps-integrity-now-revealed-co-founder-behind-scenes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Project<\/a>, a group of so-called Republicans that was supposed to only be opposed to Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. Apparently, they\u2019re still around \u2014 and tearing down Trump\u2019s main opponent for the GOP nomination, which should tell you a great deal about just how serious they are about their conservatism or their original mission. Nice work.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, America managed to survive until the Carter administration without two of these departments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disturbing-state-department-education-training-materials-coach-teachers-hide-kids-transgender-identity-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/climate-carveout-build-back-better-bill-dwarfs-department-energys-yearly-budget-clears-way-radical-transormation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy<\/a>. Neither education nor energy has gotten better in the United States in the intervening years, which should tell you a lot about how the swamp works.<\/p>\n<p>As for the IRS, America might indeed declare a national holiday should the agency be abolished. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-makes-huge-hunter-biden-admission-paragraph-21-lengthy-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a> would be the grand marshal of the first parade.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, in a country with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cbo-director-federal-debt-trajectory-unsustainable-something-give\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$30 trillion-plus debt<\/a>, some cuts need to be made. Those are four good places to start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly wild\u201d plan? I agree, albeit not in the same way The Daily Beast \u2014 or NBC News, or the Lincoln Project \u2014 does.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-reveals-eliminate-3-cabinet-departments-plus-irs\/\">DeSantis Reveals He Would Eliminate 3 Cabinet Departments &#8211; Plus the IRS<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an election, liberals are furious at the thought of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis becoming president and removing four significant sections of the Beltway swamp. 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