'We're on this collectively': Biden and DeSantis make peace in wake of hurricane

Regardless of a burgeoning political rivalry, President Joe Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stood facet by facet and thanked one another Wednesday for his or her work to offer emergency reduction to the individuals of Florida within the wake of Hurricane Ian.

Biden and first woman Jill Biden joined DeSantis and his spouse, Casey, in Fort Myers, Florida, Wednesday to survey harm brought on by the lethal storm and obtain a briefing from Federal Emergency Administration Company Administrator Deanne Criswell on the federal government's joint response.

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DeSantis is broadly thought to be a possible 2024 Republican presidential nominee and has been a thorn within the Biden administration's facet as of late over a sequence of strikes the White Home has deemed immigration-focused "political stunts," however he thanked the president Wednesday for absolutely authorizing his 60-day emergency support request and "working collectively" to ship assist to needy Floridians.

"We're reducing by the pink tape, and that is from native authorities, state authorities, all the best way as much as the president, so we respect the crew effort," DeSantis mentioned throughout remarks delivered from behind the presidential podium.

Biden, in flip, advised a crowd of onlookers that disasters like Ian assist America "come collectively" within the face of disaster.

"Right now, we've one job and just one job, and that is to ensure the individuals of Florida get every part they should absolutely, totally recuperate," the president riffed. "That is about America coming collectively."

"This is the deal: I promise you, we will be with you each step of the best way. The individuals of Florida, to all of you, we're on this collectively," Biden continued. "That is the United States of America, the United States of America."

Requested by reporters what it was like working so carefully with DeSantis this previous week, Biden mentioned he thinks the governor has "executed job."

"We've got very completely different political philosophies," he acknowledged. "However we’ve labored hand in glove. We have been in full lockstep.”

The president did point out local weather change, a topic DeSantis has beforehand dismissed as an "excuse" for Democrats to push "left-wing" insurance policies, as a key driver behind the severity of the storm.

"The most important factor the governor has executed, and a few of the others have executed, they acknowledge this factor referred to as world warming. The world is altering, and we've to alter," he advised reporters. "You'll be able to’t return to what it was earlier than. You bought to construct again higher."

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