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The Economist
The Economist
6 Feb 2025


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United States | Hard reboot

Florida comes to Washington, DC

Using sunshine-state politics as a guide to the Trump administration

|TALLAHASSEE

THE START of Donald Trump’s second term has been dizzying. But to Republicans in Tallahassee, a southern capital city draped in Spanish moss, it all looks familiar. The administration is full of Florida politicos. Most prominent are Mr Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles (he calls her “the most powerful woman in the world”), the secretary of state (Marco Rubio), the attorney general (Pam Bondi) and the national security adviser (Mike Waltz). Floridians will lead the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of the Surgeon General. With them come deputies and staffers. Back in 2017 Ballard Partners, Florida’s biggest lobbying firm, set up shop in Washington. This time the Southern Group, the second-largest, is too.

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