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“Mexico has been aiding the drug cartels and helping our enemies. They must pay the price. Mexico’s socialist President, Claudia Sheinbaum, is sending 400,000 barrels of oil to the murderous Communist Castro regime in Cuba. “I applaud President Donald Trump’s decision to implement a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States until the drug and border crisis …

Politico reports: Florida Rep. Carlos Gimenez said Wednesday that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who think like her that humans can control the weather need “to have their head examined.” Gimenez’s rebuke of his conspiratorially minded Republican colleague comes as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida’s Gulf Coast and in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said he will not support a new Speaker unless they commit to reforming the motion to vacate after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted from the speakership. “Nobody has my vote,” Gimenez said. “I think the one-person motion to vacate, I think it’s actually a little bit insane.” McCarthy agreed to change the …

The Miami Herald reports: The son of U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez was arrested Wednesday after police say he slapped a Miami city commissioner earlier in the day at Morton’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables. What triggered the spat, the latest episode in the long-running telenovela of Miami politics, was not immediately clear. But the two men involved — Miami commissioner Alex …

CNN reports: A top aide to Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida says he spoke with both the Capitol Police and the FBI on the morning of January 6 after overhearing a man in tactical gear talk about storming the FBI building just hours before the deadly insurrection. Alex Ferro, chief of staff to the Florida GOP congressman, says he …

The Associated Press reports: South Florida Congressman-elect Carlos Gimenez has tested positive for coronavirus. His campaigned announced Friday that the former Miami-Dade County mayor and his wife, Lourdes, tested positive Thursday for COVID-19 after having mild symptoms. They said they’re self-isolating at home, in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and advice from medical professionals. Gimenez served …

CNN reports: As Florida sets the most dubious of records amid the coronavirus pandemic, Miami-Dade County has decided it’s done playing by the state’s rules. As of Wednesday, restaurants in the county, the state’s most populous, will be shut down — again — except for takeout and delivery, county Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced in a news release. The mayor’s executive …

Re Miami Beach reports: As COVID-19 cases surge in Florida, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez [photo] said he will sign an emergency order on Saturday closing all beaches for the Fourth of July weekend beginning beginning Friday, July 3 and ending on Tuesday, July 7. “The closure may be extended if conditions do not improve and people do not follow …