President Donald Trump boasted about the blitz of executive orders from immigration to tariffs at his golf course in Doral Monday night as dozens of state and national leaders looked on.
During the first evening of a three-day retreat, House Republicans gathered to find the best ways to pass his agenda in D.C. ahead of a critical week on Capitol Hill.
The U.S Senate will hold confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Kash Patel as FBI director, and Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary.
Tallahassee Republicans are also gearing up today to endorse a measure backing Trump’s mass deportation policy in the state, notably sidestepping a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Florida House Speaker Danny Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton rejected the governor’s measure for immigration crackdowns, state ballot initiatives, hurricane relief, and condominium regulations.
Though leadership at first opposed the session, they supported an alternative plan filed by state Sen. Joe Gruters and Rep. Lawrence McClure called the Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy, or Trump, Act.
Speaking in Tallahassee, Perez said the act would repeal in-state tuition for dreamers, establish Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson as the chief immigration officer, and grant the state additional powers for immigration enforcement. The governor’s proposal, Perez said, would create a quote “mini-me version of ICE.”
The governor responded to the bill in a video message on X.
“They’ve named this bill the TRUMP Act,” said DeSantis. “But that’s a misnomer because President Trump’s been very strong coming out of the gate on immigration enforcement. He wants to solve this problem once and for all. The bill they did is more window dressing, it is not going to solve the problem.”