Governor Desantis announces the Task Force of the Florida Dogs, which suggests eliminating at least 700 state jobs

Tallahassee, Fla. (WCTV) – Governor Ron Desantis proposed on Monday that the department for saving taxpayers would reduce money in order to save taxpayers.

Desantis proposed to get rid of at least 700 state jobs, but hired more law enforcement and prison staff.

He also wants to eliminate dozens of state bodies that employ hundreds of people. Desantis claims that many have not met for years.

“We see to see what Musk does with the Doge in Washington DC, and the only thing I think that you have to do it is to use and use technology and artificial intelligence to pay the payments and payments Polishing and the operations and the contracts concluded in the government, ”said the governor at a press conference on Monday.

In the executive order of the governor, in which the initiative “own Doge initiative in Florida) was determined, he said that each state agency would set up its own team to eliminate the expenses and to make the President's dog efforts. Teams will report to the Executive Task Force every month until the order should take place at least next year.

WCTV turned to Afscme, a union that has many state employees nationwide. They put up the representation of employees in Florida in 2023 after a new law was passed on how union fees can be collected.

When WCTV asked who now represented a state employee, nobody said the union.

According to the website of the Department of Management Services, there is a handful of negotiation units represented by state employees – most for members of the health professions and first aiders.

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The announcement of Desantis follows after an e -mail that Elon Musk ordered over the weekend on which the federal employees could crawl. The masses sent on Saturday demanded that federal employees deliver five spherical points in which they put in their jobs last week.

In the e -mail, “What did you do last week” with a period of midnight Monday.

On X, previously known as Twitter, Elon Musk said that the failure to react as a resignation. However, some federal authorities, such as the FBI and the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, ask their employees not to answer.

Musk and the Trump government claimed that they have found billions of dollars in Bundescheckscheck, but have not submitted any evidence of the claims.

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