{"id":398755,"date":"2026-09-13T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398755\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:18:33","slug":"fla-submits-overdue-disaster-funds-report-to-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398755\/","title":{"rendered":"Fla. submits overdue disaster funds report to Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report submitted to the Florida legislature says the state has hundreds of unpaid bills for its immigration enforcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/2026\/09\/11\/emergency-fund-immigration-alligator-alcatraz-report-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to our partners at the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The DeSantis administration submitted a long-overdue report explaining how it\u2019s been spending disaster funds.<\/p>\n<p>The report, due back on July 15th but turned in on September 11th, says the Florida Department of Emergency Management has over 500 unpaid invoices worth more than $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>The division also reported that should the state get hit with a major storm, it could see a worst-case scenario of having a one-and-a-half-billion dollar deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the unpaid bills that the Division of Emergency Management still owes include contracts for the now-closed Alligator Alcatraz facility in South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report submitted to the Florida legislature says the state has hundreds of unpaid bills for its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3140,6074,28,115,139,99,275,135,137,136,835],"class_list":["post-398755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-capital-connection","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398755","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=398755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}