Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a wrecking ball to the Biden administration and its mainstream media waterboys when asked about his state’s recovery from Hurricane Idalia.

�Do you trust the federal government to help, seeing what happened in Hawaii just a few weeks ago and in East Palestine a few months ago?� a reporter asked at the press conference in Yankeetown, Florida.

�I think that Maui is a total catastrophe, what happened there,� DeSantis responded. �And I don�t think we have all the answers to that. I think we should have all the answers to that. It�s interesting how incurious our corporate media is about what happened in Maui. I mean, I don�t see them interviewing parents who can�t find their kids and people we know, there�s a lot of people missing. So that was a total disaster, really, really heartbreaking to hear some of the stories, even though they�re not being publicized.�

�And really what the federal government�s role is, is just turning on programs that Congress has enacted over many, many years,� he said. �And so it�s basically serving as a checkbook to get people reimbursed for debris cleanup, to give people individual assistance. And so in that sense, I think that that has been turned on, I anticipate that that will go smoothly. But most of the nuts and bolts is done by our local communities, and by the state of Florida. And that�s really how it should be, disaster response is really bottom up.�

�And so you had that, you had the state managing and assisting and that�s really the bread and butter,� he said. �The checkbook from the feds is great and we�re going to � whatever resources are available as the governor, I�m going to pull those levers to be able to help Floridians. But we�re certainly not relying on the federal government to do the day-to-day heavy lifting.�

�We�re going to do that as Floridians, as people in the counties and municipalities and of course at the state level,� he concluded.

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