{"id":184107,"date":"2026-03-09T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:01:06","slug":"house-senate-still-at-odds-over-budget-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184107\/","title":{"rendered":"House, Senate Still at Odds Over Budget \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fhouse-senate-still-at-odds-over-budget%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=House%2C+Senate+Still+at+Odds+Over+Budget https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/03\/09\/house-senate-still-at-odds-over-budget\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>With just over a week left in the scheduled regular session, House and Senate leaders aren\u2019t yet into formal budget negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>House Budget Chairman Lawrence McClure said Thursday talks with his Senate counterparts to set up budget negotiations will continue into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be doing it from Plant City with my kids,\u201d McClure told the House. \u201cWe\u2019ll keep talking next week. We hope to get close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are slated to end the 60-day session on March 13. To meet that timeline, the House and Senate would have to complete negotiations and have a spending plan completed by Tuesday because of a state law requiring a 72-hour \u201ccooling off\u201d period before lawmakers can vote on the completed budget.<\/p>\n<p>The House has put forward a $113.58 billion proposal, while the Senate plan came in at $115 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The two chambers have been unable to agree how much money should be set aside for different \u201csilos\u201d of the budget, such as education, transportation or the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday afternoon, House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said the two chambers have \u201ca fundamental disagreement on what the (overall) budget should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House believes we should spend less money. The Senate believes we should spend more money. I am concerned with the future of the state of Florida,\u201d Perez told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if a decision was made to extend the session or come back at a later date to complete the budget, Perez replied, \u201ca decision has not been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fhouse-senate-still-at-odds-over-budget%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=House%2C+Senate+Still+at+Odds+Over+Budget https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/03\/09\/house-senate-still-at-odds-over-budget\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; By The News Service of Florida With just over a week left in the scheduled regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-184107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}