{"id":317777,"date":"2026-06-24T05:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:23:27","slug":"daniel-perez-appoints-matt-gaetz-to-triumph-gulf-coast-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317777\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Perez appoints Matt Gaetz to Triumph Gulf Coast board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz says he\u2019s returning to public service, courtesy of an appointment to the Triumph Gulf Coast<\/a> board.<\/p>\n

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez appointed the One America News<\/a> host to the board, a public-private partnership overseeing settlement money to the state from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It later also focused efforts on other disaster recovery in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is my pleasure to appoint you to serve as a member of the Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc. Board of Directors,\u201d Perez wrote in a letter to Gaetz. \u201cYour appointment is effective starting July 1, 2026 and continues until June 30, 2030. By copy of this letter, I am advising Susan Skelton with the Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc. Board of Directors of your appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaetz previously served the Panhandle in Congress, and in the Florida Legislature before that. He resigned from Congress in 2024<\/a> after winning re-election, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation and after withdrawing his candidacy for President Donald Trump\u2019s Attorney General.<\/p>\n

The Niceville Republican welcomed the opportunity to return back to any type of role serving Florida.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am returning to public service!\u201d Gaetz posted on X. \u201cThank you, Speaker Perez, for this appointment. I look forward to the work ahead as we continue improving the lives of Northwest Floridians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaetz in Congress was one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most loyal allies<\/a> on the Hill, and was also a close ally to Gov. Ron DeSantis during his first campaign for Governor in 2018. When those two Florida Republicans ran for President against one another in 2024, Gaetz endorsed Trump.<\/p>\n

He was rumored as a potential candidate last year for Governor or Attorney General but ultimately did not pursue either office for long. Notably, Trump\u2019s campaign team also tried to woo<\/a> Perez to run for Florida Attorney General, but the Miami Republican did not do so.<\/p>\n

More recently, Trump nominated<\/a> Perez to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz says he\u2019s returning to public service, courtesy of an appointment to the Triumph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6059,34189,409,28,30,29,8880,132039],"class_list":["post-317777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-daniel-perez","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-triumph-gulf-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317777","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=317777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}