{"id":19365,"date":"2025-10-23T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19365"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:31:08","slug":"desantis-joins-democrat-in-nationwide-push-for-term-limits-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=19365","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis joins Democrat in nationwide push for term limits in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cnsfressnews.ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/571264639_1320569460108724_1147859901769922922_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cnsfressnews.ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/571264639_1320569460108724_1147859901769922922_n-735x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis is teaming up with a former Democratic representative to make a push for term limits in Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">1 arrested after shots fired during apparent road rage incident in downtown Tampa: police<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, the governor announced he and former Rep. David Trone of Maryland would co-chair U.S. Term Limits, a non-profit dedicated to gathering the necessary support to call a constitutional convention to propose term limits. They need the support of 34 states to do so.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis and Trone published a joint\u00a0op-ed in The New York Times, which framed the push for term limits in the context of the federal government shutdown. They argued that too many members of Congress are focused more on reelection than on passing legislation and working for the public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">Florida dad arrested after naked child found running on I-4 ramp: police<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur Founders wouldn\u2019t recognize the 119th Congress if they saw it today. Congress is now less a representative body and more like an elite country club of career politicians who are consumed by an obsession to remain in power \u2013 a far cry from its original purpose,\u201d DeSantis and Trone said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen states across the country have passed resolutions calling for a convention on the matter, including Florida. Part of U.S. Term Limits advocacy involves calling on candidates to sign onto a pledge supporting a three-term limit for House members and a two-term limit for Senators. That would effectively be a six-year and 12-year limit, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Governor Ron DeSantis is teaming up with a former Democratic representative to make a push for term limits in Congress.&nbsp; 1 arrested after shots fired during &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19367,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions\/19367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}