{"id":295499,"date":"2026-06-04T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:57:09","slug":"ron-desantis-says-elon-musk-took-on-the-swamp-and-the-swamp-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295499\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis says Elon Musk took on The Swamp … and The Swamp won"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s Governor is back in the Nation’s Capital. <\/p>\n

Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0said tech leader\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0did his best to trim government waste and overspending through the\u00a0Department of Government Efficiency<\/a>, but was not successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we can look back over the last year and a half and and just acknowledge Elon and DOGE fought the swamp and the swamp won. Not even close. People criticize how some of this stuff was done and maybe there was (reason to do so), but the idea was we were really going to do something about how government\u2019s spending money,\u201d DeSantis said at an American Enterprise Institute<\/a> event Wednesday.<\/p>\n

DeSantis said the effort drew strong interest from Republican base voters back home who were excited, but it ultimately did not succeed.<\/p>\n

While speaking on a panel about a federal\u00a0Balanced Budget Amendment<\/a>, DeSantis said DOGE\u2019s failure showed how Congress is resistant to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons why is because there\u2019s no constraints on them doing more of the same. Their incentives are just to kick the can down the road. That\u2019s how somebody who\u2019s in Congress, ultimately, is going to think and see about these things. It\u2019s less of a pain for them to do status quo and just try to get to the next election than it is to actually exercise some leadership,\u201d said DeSantis, who served three terms in the House of Representatives before becoming Governor of Florida.<\/p>\n

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He said DOGE\u2019s failure showed why a Balanced Budget Amendment is needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf DOGE had come in and they had really upended Washington and changed the trajectory, that would probably have taken some of the wind out of the sails of this effort,\u201d he said, arguing that the amendment is \u201cthe best vehicle that has a chance of actually coming to fruition that would actually make, I think, a generational difference in the trajectory of this country\u2019s finances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America’s Governor is back in the Nation’s Capital. Gov.\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0said tech leader\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0did his best to trim government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124520,124521,63293,3094,30577,28,30,29,412],"class_list":["post-295499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aei","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-constitutional-balanced-budget-amendment","tag-doge","tag-elon-musk","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ron-desantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}