Ron DeSantis cut $5 million to prevent gun violence in Florida. black history programs and target Donald Trump supporters in a record high government budget to support his 2024 presidential campaign.
Florida's governor vetoed $511m (£400m) of proposed funding while saving billions of dollars to advance his conservative agenda in what his Republican critics called a «dastardly» attack on his opponents.
The cuts included a $5 million cut in gun violence prevention; $160,000 to celebrate Black History Month in Orlando and $200,000 to fund Florida's Black Music Legacy to highlight the state's contribution to black music.
Mr. DeSantis also vetoed a $20 million nursing campus at a university in the county. in the form of a Republican congressman who endorsed Mr. Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
Joe Gruters, former state GOP chairman, said he believes Mr. DeSantis is moving away from nursing development. deeds in retaliation.
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He told the Miami Herald, «It's acts like this that define him here and across the country.» , 44, and a former president, 77, who understands that «people come first».
Mr. Trump, who is also a Florida resident, said his «nearly universal support in Florida» after he received support from almost half of Florida's Republican congressional delegation in Washington earlier this year.
Mr. DeSantis has received about 100 Republican endorsements in his state legislature, where he has exclusive control, but very few from Florida lawmakers in Congress.
The state budget was last unanimously approved by the Republican-controlled state legislature. month, and Mr. DeSantis' cutbacks in the priorities of some GOP lawmakers are likely to irritate some members of the party.
The cuts, however, are significantly smaller than the record $3.3 billion Mr. DeSantis slashed from last year's budget.
The massive budget—roughly $117 billion—represents a 6 percent increase over the current year's spending plan and contrasts with Mr. DeSantis' regular boasting about financial constraints.
The Governor has come under pressure from the Internal Revenue Service Florida, a business-backed nonprofit, vetoed 38 projects but abandoned 29 of them.
In announcing the budget on Thursday, Mr. DeSantis touted «record» environmental spending and higher police pay and teachers. .
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He justified the size of Florida's budget by comparing state spending to federal spending, stating, «We're good at managing the finances.»
In addition to the cuts, the state budget is pouring millions into Florida's higher education institutions to bolster its conservative ideology.
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It includes $30 million for a new conservative think tank affiliated with the University of Florida and another $25 million to «institutionalize» a small liberal arts college on Florida's west coast into a new conservative public university model.
Education has become a key battlefield for Mr. DeSantis, who has made countering the rise of wakefulness politics in the United States a key item on his agenda.< p>Another one of Mr. DeSantis' signature policies is air travel and transportation migrants from Florida to liberal states received $12 million.
More than $10 million has also been allocated to various agencies to protect the administration from inevitable lawsuits. this would cast doubt on the constitutionality of his policies.
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