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Rick Scott

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Rick Lynn Scott is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the junior United States senator from Florida, a position he has held since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Scott previously served as the 45th governor of Florida from January 4, 2011, to January 8, 2019. During his tenure as governor, he focused on job creation, economic growth, and education reform, implementing policies aimed at reducing taxes and regulations.

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Sep 12, 2023

Well let me ask you a question. So what you see in the news is places like New York. They're saying that all these illegal immigrants have come up there, and now there's housing in hotels, and they're giving food vouchers and things like…

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Sep 12, 2023

Many of these people have an eighth grade education.

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Sep 12, 2023

I think we have to do two things. We have to get Americans back to work, and two, we have to figure out how we incentivize, create a system where we get people that want to come here to work, and not be dependent.

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Sep 12, 2023

So if you come here legally, right now. If you come here legally, the 2.1 million people who came here legally, let's just take them, they come here. They come here legally. They get their green card. Do they cost us money?

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Sep 12, 2023

I come from an immigration state. I come from Florida, so we have a lot of primarily Latin America.

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Sep 12, 2023

Do the people that come here illegally get more than benefits?

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Sep 12, 2023

It's completely unfair to someone who comes through the legal process.

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Sep 12, 2023

If all of Guatemala comes tomorrow, they might be wonderful people, but we couldn't afford that.

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Sep 12, 2023

Are they productive citizens day one?

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Jul 12, 2023

there's not one thing that Joe Biden has done to fix it.

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Jul 12, 2023

I proposed legislation that's called the Protect our Seniors Act, that will safeguard the benefits of these critical entitlements.

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Jul 12, 2023

I proposed legislation that's called the Protect our Seniors Act, that will safeguard the benefits of these critical entitlements.

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Jul 12, 2023

there's not one thing that Joe Biden has done to fix it.

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Jul 11, 2023

So I mean I think what's frustrating here is we know this is one of the biggest issues we have.

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Jul 11, 2023

There’s not one thing that Joe Biden has done to fix it.

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Jul 11, 2023

Right now we could fix Social Security with some of that money.

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Jul 11, 2023

I proposed legislation that's called the Protect our Seniors Act, that will safeguard the benefits of these critical entitlements.

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Jun 15, 2023

Have you found--like what we do in Florida, we have shelters for people with disabilities, for pets, and we have all these different things.

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Jun 15, 2023

I have been traveling the State, I have been in seven cities in the last three weeks trying to get people ready for and prepare for hurricane season, which started June 1st.

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Jun 15, 2023

Have you found--like what we do in Florida, we have shelters for people with disabilities, for pets, and we have all these different things.

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Jun 15, 2023

I have been traveling the State, I have been in seven cities in the last three weeks trying to get people ready for and prepare for hurricane season, which started June 1st.

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Jun 14, 2023

I have been traveling the State, I have been in seven cities in the last three weeks trying to get people ready for and prepare for hurricane season, which started June 1st.

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Jun 14, 2023

Have you found--like what we do in Florida, we have shelters for people with disabilities, for pets, and we have all these different things.

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Jun 13, 2023

This administration is clearly not doing their job.

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