Florida House nixes DeSantis priorities in budget plan
Hopefully Republicans in Florida have had enough of the De Santis'
TALLAHASSEE — Without warning, public debate or coordination with the Senate, the Florida House late Thursday released an austere $113.6 billion spending plan for next year that does not fund key priorities of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The House’s budget for 2026-27, released while DeSantis was in California participating in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, slashes the fund the governor used for immigration enforcement, including the building of Alligator Alcatraz, the Everglades immigration detention facility, and provides no money for the Florida State Guard, which he revived in 2022 and has been rocked by allegations of mismanagement in recent months.
And it orders the Department of Children and Families to return $76.8 million to the opioid settlement trust fund that it didn’t spend this year. The agency has come under fire for spending $4.9 million of that money on an anti-marijuana campaign, which it never told the advisory council that oversees the trust fund about, as required by law.
The House budget comes in at about $4 billion less than the governor’s final spending plan of his tenure and is about $1 billion less than the plan approved last year for the 2025-26 budget year.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/02/13/florida-house-nixes-desantis-priorities-in-budget-plan/
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