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DeSantis spending Florida tax money in Texas


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What DeSantis will be sending:

  • 800 members of the Florida National Guard;
  • 200 agents (in teams of 40) from the state Department of Law Enforcement;
  • 101 state highway patrol troopers;
  • 20 agents from the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Department of Emergency Management;
  • 5 fixed-wing aircrafts;
  • 17 unmanned drones;
  • 10 waterborne vessels.

DeSantis' office said the personnel will be at the border for 30 days, with possible extensions. The announcement comes just weeks before the June start of hurricane season.

Image: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a New Hampshire Republican Party dinner on April 14, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a New Hampshire Republican Party dinner on April 14, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.Charles Krupa / AP file

Abbott said in a statement Tuesday, shortly after DeSantis' announcement, that he has sent letters to all 50 governors requesting "support in responding to the ongoing border crisis."

In its ask for assistance from the states, Texas requested that those states pay for the costs associated with the mission.

In January, he signed an executive order deploying the Florida National Guard to respond to hundreds of Cuban migrants arriving in southern Florida. That’s on top of the more than $20 million the Republican-dominated Legislature has given him to help expand a migrant transport program that sparked controversy last September when it was used to shuttle 50 mostly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to an unsuspecting Martha’s Vineyard.

 





 
Matt Dixon

Matt Dixon is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Florida.

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21 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

What DeSantis will be sending:

  • 800 members of the Florida National Guard;
  • 200 agents (in teams of 40) from the state Department of Law Enforcement;
  • 101 state highway patrol troopers;
  • 20 agents from the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Department of Emergency Management;
  • 5 fixed-wing aircrafts;
  • 17 unmanned drones;
  • 10 waterborne vessels.

DeSantis' office said the personnel will be at the border for 30 days, with possible extensions. The announcement comes just weeks before the June start of hurricane season.

Image: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a New Hampshire Republican Party dinner on April 14, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a New Hampshire Republican Party dinner on April 14, 2023, in Manchester, N.H.Charles Krupa / AP file

Abbott said in a statement Tuesday, shortly after DeSantis' announcement, that he has sent letters to all 50 governors requesting "support in responding to the ongoing border crisis."

In its ask for assistance from the states, Texas requested that those states pay for the costs associated with the mission.

In January, he signed an executive order deploying the Florida National Guard to respond to hundreds of Cuban migrants arriving in southern Florida. That’s on top of the more than $20 million the Republican-dominated Legislature has given him to help expand a migrant transport program that sparked controversy last September when it was used to shuttle 50 mostly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to an unsuspecting Martha’s Vineyard.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Matt Dixon

Matt Dixon is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Florida.

Big deal.  Our govt spends tens of billions all over the world for wacky causes, in addition to some causes that can be considered rational. 

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Just now, Nolebull813 said:

$10 million to Pakistan for gender studies. Will can eat shit. Fake ass outrage 

Don't get mad at me. I am not spending your money in another state.

I told you NB. This the second time he has spent money in Texas.

It is also the start of hurricane season, is it not?

Your emergency response has been depleted. That is foreboding doom for Florida residents.

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1 minute ago, Wildcat Will said:

Don't get mad at me. I am not spending your money in another state.

I told you NB. This the second time he has spent money in Texas.

It is also the start of hurricane season, is it not?

Your emergency response has been depleted. That is foreboding doom for Florida residents.

I told him he could. With 1,000 people moving here per day we can afford it. 

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2 hours ago, Wildcat Will said:

I told you what is happening in Florida. Now see what someone else thinks.

https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-policies-florida-reminiscent-communism-historian-says-1791538

Someone should have told the 365,000 people who moved here last year, 4 years into DeSantis’ governorship. They might not have gotten the memo. 
 

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On 5/18/2023 at 9:02 PM, Wildcat Will said:

They are needed now to pick the produce. When the price goes up, thank him.

Nah. I’ll thank the lazy fucking Americans who would rather cry victim and mooch off of the gubment than work a job “beneath” them and their lack of education. 

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5 minutes ago, Sweetlarry said:

They should. Along with the lazy ass blacks, Asians, Hispanics and any other ethnic group mooching off of my hard earned instead of making their own. 

 Snap recipients represent different races and/or ethnicities. White: about 37 percent; African American: 26 percent; Hispanic: 16 percent; Asian: 3 percent; and Native American: about 2 percent. (About 16 percent of participants are categorized as “race unknown.”)

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9 minutes ago, Sweetlarry said:

They should. Along with the lazy ass blacks, Asians, Hispanics and any other ethnic group mooching off of my hard earned instead of making their own. 

I love teaching dumbasses like you. A person of adulthood, physically capable of doing so, must work to receive assistance.

Stop listening to the lies you are being told.

Work Requirement: All adult recipients have a work requirement, and are required to participate in work activities and training for at least 30 hours weekly. These work activities help recipients gain the experience needed to find a job and become self-sufficient.

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