Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis bashed President Biden for his economic policies and said that Biden disdained American energy independence.
In 2021, Biden pushed for and got a huge $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, then later got a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. At the end of March 2022, Biden proposed a $5.8 trillion budget, and last week the Biden administration announced they had canceled three oil and gas leases, including a mammoth one in Alaska.
DeSantis, noting the record-high gas prices plaguing the nation, said on Sunday, “People are getting actually hammered with gas prices and the overall inflation is attributable more than anything to Biden’s policy of printing trillions and trillions of dollars like they have done since he has gotten into office.”
DeSantis responded to Fox News host Dan Bongino, who pointed out, “We’re seeing record gas prices, people are really struggling. We have a lot of people in Florida who are on fixed incomes down here….
