For six years, Governor Ron Desantis has hardly received a public pushback from the legislative leader.
But now, after calling a special session to start Monday to pass the laws on illegal immigrants and other issues, Desantis is facing a tough RE responsibility from GOP colleagues.
Senior R-WAuchula President Ben Albritton and Daniel Perez (R-Miami), the House of Representatives, said that after the special session call of Desantis, it was “immature” and “completely irresponsible”. He issued a joint memo to appear before the presidential order. Published by President Donald Trump.
After that, Trump, who announced a series of orders on Monday to promote expulsion of abroad and prevent new illegal entries to the country, supported the Desantis plan for special sessions.
Desantis maintains the pressure on Albritton and Perez, holds a press conference between the Support Serparies and the Diet, heads for Fox News, and faces the legislature opposed to his push. It suggests.
“If you are a member of the Florida Congress, imagine that you have to explain it to the Republican voters.” Oh, do you want to help this? Can we just wait and do it a few months later? Desantis told Fox News Laura Ingraham on Wednesday. “Our people want to act now. There is momentum. We must achieve it.”
He held a conference with the Florida Republican officials, urged the leaders of the local Republican Executive Committee of each county to convey the proposal of Desantis in a special session, and further pressure was applied on Thursday. 。 This call was first reported by Florida politics.
During the legislative committee meeting last week, the leaders of the agency and department tried to talk about illegal immigrants, even in a department that had little to do with the subject.
When the lottery director John Davis began to talk about eliminating the unwritten state of unwritten immigrants, he was closed by the R-Miami of the House of Representatives Budget Budget, Vicki Lopez. 。
“It’s crazy to see a major GOP closing the debate about illegal immigrants in the house,” he posted to X. about it. “”
The children were passed under the GOP leadership and were signed by the GOV at the time, so that unwritten immigration tuition was brought to the country. Rick Scott. However, the bill divides the parties. Governor Janet Nunes sponsored the bill in 2014 as a member of the House of Representatives in Florida. Albritton voted against it (he was also at home at the time) and said he supported the law step by step.
Desantis also wants to establish liaisons for the authority to expand abroad and transport illegal immigrants to foreign countries in cooperation with the federal government and the federal government, and the requirements for local law execution agencies to cooperate with the federal immigration authorities. I am.
On their side, Albritton and Perez rarely say beyond the joint memo. As of the morning of Friday, no invoice was submitted to the special session. ALBRITTON and Perez spokesman did not return phone or email for comments this week.
Later, the first five invoices were submitted at 1:00 pm on Sunday, and all were submitted by Brazing Hill, R-Spring Hill, and Desantis Ally. They were all “fighting illegal immigrants” in the title.
GOP’s legislative leader: Wait for a regular session
The memo states that they do not oppose the new immigration law in accordance with Trump’s order, but prefer regular processes during regular sessions. The 60 -day regular session begins on March 4, and most laws passed during that period are enabled on July 1st.
Other issues were included in the special session of Desantis. It is a part of his plan to impose new restrictions on providing funds to the Hurricane easing program, gathering petitions and rescue of condominium evaluation.
Perez neglects the necessity of the new condominium method, and after the collapse of the condominium building in 2021, after the collapse of the apartment that killed 98, the condominium association would pay for the repair of old buildings. He states that it is necessary to secure money.
However, the evaluation imposed by the condominium owner has been driven out of their homes. Desantis discussed a round table with the owner of the condominium last fall, and first pushed a special session to deal with the problem by the end of 2024.
ALBITTON and PEREZ, which are stated in the memo, can also wait for these issues to the normal session. They also show that they might not take up Desantis ideas.
“Florida’s constitution is forced to attend a unilateral session called by the governor,” a note. “But the authority to convene a special session is also present in the chairman’s officers. I will decide.
But Desantis is permanent. At a press conference on Thursday at Jackson Building, he suggested that he would return to another special session, saying, “It’s like a waste dog,” until he acted on his plan.
“I have a constitutional authority to exercise this process, and I will continue to exercise it,” Desantis said. “I don’t let go. I haven’t waited for 6 months to stick to something.”
(This story has been updated and new information has been added.)
GRAY ROHRER is a reporter for US toDay Network-Florida Capital Bureau. He can contact me on grohrer@gannett.com. X: Follow him with @grayrohrer.
