DeSantis has a fairly friendly general assembly in Florida. Trying to get stuff through a U.S. Congress with be a whole different world.
Term limits for US Congress and a balanced budget amendment will have to be passed by congress, then ratified by the states (which is a whole 'nother issue). So the same people who have made a career of staying in congress will have to vote to give up their golden fleece and most of their ability to buy votes for this to happen. And I'm referring to both parties here. Odds of this happening is somewhat less than cptlo marrying a fat chick who hates cats.
As for line item veto...Dubya wanted badly to try it, he had a small army of legal teams looking into the constitutionality of it/ Sadly, the consensus was that it would probably not make it past the SCOTUS. While it might sound good with a conservative president in office, it could also be a disaster under a president like Biden. Frankly, such a power would likely undermine the constitutional authority of Congress to spend money.
More on a balanced budget amendment...the sad reality is, we could not balance the budget more quickly than over a period of at least several years without plunging our economy into an all-out depression. Why? I forget the exact numbers, but I did a study some years ago when I was arguing with the idiots on P'Com, and a sizable percentage of jobs in our country are for or directly downstream of government. Balance the budget all at once and we'd have soup lines like we haven't seen in decades. So you wonder why we're in a fiscal disaster in this country? Because a big chunk of our economy is government spending, and that is spending that does not produce anything at all. It yields no product, it adds nothing to the GDP.
Look...I'm not upset with DeSantis for making such promises, for the most part he's right in wanting these things. But it is what it is, political BS. To be fair, he's not doing anything the others aren't. But these are empty promises to rally the sheeple.
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