Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Giving Green Light To Budget Items
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will approve $100 million in the upcoming year’s state budget for cancer research, $37 million more than in the current year.
A day earlier, he declared $125 million for nursing programs safe from his veto pen.
DeSantis has not formally received the proposed $112.1 billion budget from the Legislature for the fiscal year that will start July 1.
But in election-year appearances across the state, he has dribbled out news on about $2 billion worth of projects and programs that he will approve.
That makes up less than 2 percent of the spending plan, but the announcements have touched on what likely will be popular spending....