Analysis by N43 AND HERMES AI

Ron DeSantis built a Florida record of agency audits, board eliminations and a state DOGE that claimed nearly $1 billion in savings — while his 2024 campaign pledged to abolish four federal entities outright. This is a scenario analysis of what a DeSantis administration could factually do to the federal bureaucracy in its first 100 days, and what it verifiably could not. Not a prediction. Not an endorsement.

Ron DeSantis signed HB 1, the country's first universal private-school scholarship law, and in January 2026 opted Florida into the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit. The federal school-choice architecture is already half-built. In a DeSantis first 100 days, what is left to do is the part that requires Congress.

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · Gavin Newsom · Gretchen Whitmer · JD Vance · Josh Shapiro · Kamala Harris · Marco Rubio · Ron DeSantis · Ted Cruz

Vance, Rubio, DeSantis and Cruz on one side; Newsom, Harris, Whitmer, Shapiro and Ocasio-Cortez on the other. Across immigration, AI, taxes, energy, healthcare, education, defense and regulation, every would-be first-100-days agenda sorts into the same five buckets — and the buckets, not the candidates, decide what actually happens. Scenario analysis, not a prediction or endorsement.

Scenario analysis, not a prediction: Ron DeSantis made Florida the laboratory — HB 1 universal school choice, the Stop WOKE Act, SB 266 higher-education reform. A first 100 days as president would test how much of an education agenda survives contact with federal law, which mostly forbids Washington from running schools.

Featuring: Ron DeSantis · Ted Cruz

Ron DeSantis erased climate change from Florida law and banned offshore wind in state waters; Ted Cruz has spent a decade legislating oil-and-gas dominance from the Senate. Both are Republican energy maximalists — but their first 100 days would diverge sharply on offshore drilling, LNG, and who Congress works for. Scenario analysis, not a prediction or endorsement.