The priorities of Desantis and Trump have an impact on the legislative meeting in Florida

Tallahassee, Fla. (AP)-The legislators in Florida officially started their legislative session in 2025 on Tuesday, the political efforts drove two of the best-known residents of the state-like governor Ron Desantis and President Donald Trump-Das conversation in the middle of the pomp and the ceremony.

When Desantis approaches the end of his second term as a governor, the popular Republican leader spoke a potential heir to follow him: his wife Casey Desantis. At the same time, Desantis saved with some allies of Trump in the legislature and worked on laying the foundation for his own political future, while the supporters of the President in Tallahasee are trying to follow the promise of campaign promises of the man of desantis in order to challenge the nomination of the Republican Party.

Desantis spoke to a joint session of the legislator on Tuesday and advertises the laws that he had signed last month because of the procedure against the illegal immigration in the state that had passed the legislators after working together in three special sessions that had triggered a bitter feud between the governor and the legislative leader when they stood against the ideas of the trump.

But in a house chamber filled with the legislator, Desantis congratulated the legislative leaders who were at his side on the immigration measures.

“No state has done more and no state did it earlier than in the free state of Florida,” said Desantis. “We can and we have to continue.”

In the regular session, Desantis asked the legislator to examine a proposal to remedy the property taxes and restrictions on weapons that passed a cross -party coalition after shooting Marjory Stoneman Dough High School in Parkland 2018 and significantly restructured the selection initiative procedure of the citizens. In November, Florida voters used the ballot paper to propose the legalization of leisure marijuana and the expansion of abortion rights, although the measure decreased.

“We saw how this constitutional change process became perverted,” said Desantis, claiming that there were fraud in the petitions with which the measures for the ballot were received. “We have to clean up this outside of the control change.”

The legislator has enabled a number of legislative templates to deal with some of the most urgent concerns of their voters: the persistent effects of successive hurricanes, the increasing costs for real estate insurance and apartments as well as immigration and threats from climate change and the increase in sea level.

But also on the legislator's files are legislative templates that aim to carry out some of Trump's inquiries from the ban on fluoride in public water systems, which the secretary of the president's health and human service, to the codification of the “Golf of America” ​​by state agencies and in teaching materials after Trump has a renovation of the golf of Gulfs signed Mexico.

“It seems as if they had all liked them,” said Fentrice Driskell, leader of house minor, said about Republican leaders. “So I'm worried about the influence of the federal government and especially Donald Trump what we are doing in this legislative session.”

The Republican President of Senate Ben Albritton focused on his comments on what he described as the need for government efficiency, at a time when the Trump government is working to reduce the federal employee.

“In order to be clear, we will take the opportunity to build and modernize in Florida's many years of responsibility processes. Now it is time to do this,” said Albritton.

In previous meetings, the legislative leaders quickly pursued the governor's priorities with little public resistance and helped Desantis to build his national profile as a brave executive that takes over the left and makes the state a envy of conservative activists across the country.

But in the past few months, the Republican legislators in Florida have questioned the management of Desantis as never before and initially opposed his request to a special session for illegal immigration. Some legislators have submitted legal templates to reset the efforts of the Desantis administration, such as:

Daniel Perez, spokesman for the Republican House, encouraged its members to use the opportunities for changes “during this time of chaos”.

“We cannot be afraid to break the status quo,” said Perez. “We have to get up to meet this moment.”

___ Kate Payne is a member of the Corps for the “Associated Press/Report” initiative for America Statehouse News. The report for America is a non -profit National Service program that reports journalists in local news editorial offices on hidden topics.