Updated Apr. 30
TALLAHASSEE â Eight months ago, state lawmakers were fretting about the stateâs budget. With millions of Floridians out of work, sales tax revenues dried up and state agencies were facing deep cuts.
But in a dramatic turnaround, sales tax revenues rebounded and Congress sent Florida billions in stimulus dollars, allowing lawmakers to go on a spending spree this year.
State lawmakers on Friday signed off on a record $101.5 billion on the state budget that has left both Republicans and Democrats happy â mostly.
Flush with $10.2 billion American Rescue Plan funding from Congress, Republicans are using it to cross off longstanding issues and plug holes in the budget created by the pandemic.
Biden Previews New North Korea Strategy Distancing Himself from Trump, Obama
On 4/30/21 at 5:56 PM EDT
U.S. President Joe Biden s administration has revealed a new strategy toward nuclear-armed North Korea, seeking to distance the approach from those pursued by his two predecessors.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed a summary of the approach to reporters Friday as she confirmed a months-long thorough, rigorous and inclusive policy review regarding North Korea, officially the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, had been completed. Our goal remains the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, with the clear understanding that the efforts of the past four administrations have not achieved this objective, Psaki said.
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President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office have been marked by ambitious spending plans and chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Whether the spending can alleviate the pandemic and its associated economic crisis without inflicting crippling new taxes and debt will go a long way toward determining Biden’s success. The border crisis is presently the biggest area in which voters already view him as a failure for now.
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking about real money,” is the old Washington quote often attributed to onetime Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen. Under Biden, the figure is $2 trillion and soon could grow much larger.