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DeSantis taps into federal spending for $96.6 billion state budget proposal

FEBRUARY 3, 2021 | by Gray Rohrer | ORLANDO SENTINEL

By Gray Rohrer, includes “With Florida’s economy still reeling from the downturn brought by the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a $96.6 billion budget proposal Thursday that’s $4.3 billion more than this year, thanks largely to federal spending on the pandemic. A surge in Medicaid enrollment as more workers were laid off and pushed out of employer plans led to a projected $3 billion increase in Medicaid spending …”

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