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Ron DeSantis: “The executive does have the authority to fire way more…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Published | Video Starts at 26:21

You should simply reduce the federal bureaucracy through attrition. If you didn't backfill a lot of these things over a period of years, you could reduce. I also think The executive does have the authority to fire way more people than we've been led to believe. I mean, you can't have a situation where someone can get elected president and yet the other side controls the entire executive branch with the bureaucracy. (26:21–26:28)

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Asserts that the executive branch has more power to dismiss federal employees than commonly thought.

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