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Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ (www.theguardian.com)

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After spending taxpayers’ money, Florida governor will likely be left holding bill for $608m promised by Trump administration

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers’ money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as Alligator Alcatraz, court records obtained by the independent investigative news website the Florida Tributary reveal.

A switch in position by Donald Trump’s administration also now looks likely to leave Florida on the hook for at least $608m spent on the harsh Everglades detention and deportation facility and other immigration jails, the outlet said. That was despite gloating by DeSantis in September that the state would be reimbursed from federal funds.

James Uthmeier, DeSantis’s former chief of staff and Florida’s unelected attorney general, admitted last week the possibility that a federal reimbursement grant the governor had insisted was locked in might not be delivered after all.

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[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago

A switch in position by Donald Trump’s administration also now looks likely to leave Florida on the hook for at least $608m

A Trump never pays his debts.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 hours ago

No, he spent other people's money.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 46 points 7 hours ago

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers’ money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail

See, though, that’s kinda the opposite of the headline. Why didn;t the word “taxpayer’s” get into the headline?

[-] TrumpetX@programming.dev 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

(as noted in the recap, but left out of the title) Florida residents spent that money. Ron just signed the checks.

People really need to wake up and realize they're making life worse for us with our own money.

[-] blarth 6 points 5 hours ago

I am so exhausted with our tax revenue being used by politicians to prove points. I just want my life to improve.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

It's OK, the old white retired Florida racists loved seeing brown people suffering.

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 3 points 5 hours ago

They need to dredge that swamp for bones

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

He wanted so desperately to be part of the Border Crossing War, but Florida doesn't have a border with Mexico, so he had to do the best he could with Alligator Alcatraz.

If he had been controlling a border, he would have been a monster.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

How many people did he feed to the alligators? That's presumably how he paid the alligators

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

*Ron DeSadist

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Ron DeathSentence

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