{"id":79191,"date":"2025-12-11T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:00:09","slug":"watch-as-florida-gov-ron-desantis-outlines-budget-plan-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79191\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis outlines budget plan in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an Orlando appearance earlier Dec. 10, DeSantis released budget recommendations for the state. He told reporters that the state&#8217;s rainy day fund is now maxed under state law and Florida has paid down half of its outstanding debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch video from the press conference below<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/state\/2025\/12\/10\/desantis-pushes-major-florida-spending-plan-before-final-year\/87690255007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:DeSantis seeks $117B Florida budget with boost for teacher pay;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">DeSantis seeks $117B Florida budget with boost for teacher pay<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The governor also mentioned his proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/state\/2025\/12\/08\/trump-desantis-ai-florida\/87673205007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence bill of rights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">artificial intelligence bill of rights<\/a> and the problems of resource-hungry data centers. &#8220;Obviously we&#8217;re not going to allow them to take away from rate-payers, make them poay more for that,&#8221; he said. But he also said the growing trend of using AI could be a danger to teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DeSantis&#8217; recommendations include &#8220;a record $1.56 billion solely for teacher pay increases.&#8221; DeSantis blamed teacher unions in some districts of withholding funds for raises as political bargaining chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Florida Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/state\/2025\/12\/10\/florida-gov-ron-desantis-press-conference-live-stream\/87700956007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offers plans for his upcoming state budget;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offers plans for his upcoming state budget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an Orlando appearance earlier Dec. 10, DeSantis released budget recommendations for the state. He told reporters that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44356,2683,28,139,141,140,5530,44355,18903,44357],"class_list":{"0":"post-79191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-budget-recommendations","9":"tag-desantis","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-press-conference","15":"tag-rainy-day-fund","16":"tag-teacher-pay","17":"tag-watch-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191","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=79191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}