Florida disaster fund spent more on immigration than all 2025 missions combined

Florida disaster fund spent more on immigration than all 2025 missions combined

Two-thirds of the money spent last year from the Florida emergency fund went to immigration. (Getty Images. Courtesy of NC Policy Watch).The DeSantis administration spent nearly two-thirds of Florida’s emergency fund last fiscal year on fighting illegal immigration, dwarfing spending for severe weather, international rescues, and other emergency missions for which the fund was created. State records show that the Florida Division of Emergency Ma…

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