DeSantis Campaign Press Release - Ron DeSantis: "I don't support having a truck driver having to pay a student loan for someone that got a degree in gender studies. That is wrong."

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – During the Fourth Republican Presidential Primary Debate, Ron DeSantis said:

"The borrowing, printing and spending of money was both parties in Washington, DC. That's just the fact. These Republicans in Washington have spent. It's driven your prices higher, and it's driven your interest rates to the point where you can't afford. I met a young fella in Iowa. He had graduated college a couple years ago, and he's like, 'Governor, I don't have a chance I'm gainfully employed.' He's like, 'I have no chance to afford a home and start a family.' That is taking the American dream away from people.

So we're gonna get the inflation down. We're gonna get the interest rates down. We are going to reduce spending, and I will be willing to veto. And I vetoed a lot as governor of Florida and we'll do that. We're also going to open up all of our domestic energy for production. Lower your gas prices. Lower the price of fuel. That's going to help the economy. It also helped jobs, and we'll do it. But you know, another thing that's burdening young people are the student loans. Now, I don't support having a truck driver having to pay a student loan for someone that got a degree in gender studies. That is wrong. We should not have taxpayers do that. What I'm going to do though, is I'm going to get to the root cause of the problem. These student loans are going to be backed by the universities, because they need to have an incentive to produce gainful employment for people. They should not be indulging in ideological studies.

They should be focusing on things that work, and we're going to take some of this money and we're going to move it to actual vocational training. In Florida, we doubled apprenticeships. We have more truck drivers. These are in demand skills. Don't let anybody tell you that the only way you can be successful is through a four year brick and ivy degree. That's one way you can be. It's not the only way, and we're going to fix that problem in the United States of America."

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