{"id":324848,"date":"2026-06-30T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:56:08","slug":"floridas-new-fiscal-year-budget-what-did-desantis-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324848\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s new fiscal year budget: What did DeSantis veto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state budget for next fiscal year Monday. The year begins Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the last budget DeSantis will sign before he leaves office. The $117.6 billion budget includes a plan to transfer USF\u2019s Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida, which DeSantis remade with conservative leadership. It also includes teacher pay raises, Everglades restoration money and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusf.org\/education\/2026-06-18\/trustees-details-usf-yield-campus-space-new-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ALSO READ: Trustees hammer out details of how USF will yield campus space to New College<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis struck a celebratory tone during a Monday morning press conference at Hillsborough College in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the budget that I\u2019ll sign today, after doing my line item vetoes, will represent the fourth straight year in Florida that we\u2019ve actually reduced our state budget,\u201d he said. \u201cWho else is doing that?\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p>State Democrats were far less impressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats absolutely were disproportionately targeted in the vetoes by a rate of two to one by our initial assessment,\u201d said House Democratic Leader Fentrice Driskell of Tampa. \u201cWhat\u2019s so unfortunate about that is that regardless of whether or not your district is represented by a Democrat or a Republican, there are people of all political stripes in those districts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis vetoed nearly $810 million in line items, most of them projects lawmakers requested for their districts.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, other vetoes included the transfer of $750 million from the general revenue fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund, or the \u201crainy day fund,\u201d which helps the state in case of shortfalls. He also rejected a prison infrastructure plan that would have financed new prison construction and maintenance, eliminating funding for correctional officer raises that was tied to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OAotU_hLX0ctU_1aCtKlWxZOxY35UHhe\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">View the veto list here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doug Soule is a reporter for WUSF, the bay area\u2019s NPR affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state budget for next fiscal year Monday. The year begins Wednesday. It\u2019s the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-324848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324848","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=324848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}