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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Emergency management officials have authorized up to nearly $50 million in taxpayer dollars to one contractor for open-ended charter flights since Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the state to bring Floridians home from Israel two weeks ago, public records show. State officials have offered little information about who’s involved in helping Americans leave Israel amid the war with ...
Project Dynamo, the organization that helped Florida evacuate Americans from Israel after the Hamas attack, is retracting its CEO's statement that the state's intervention made the evacuation harder.
Randall Hill/ReutersFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to rescue Americans trying to leave Israel ran into trouble this week with two dozen people stuck in Cyprus for days before they finally arrived in Florida on Wednesday. Bryan Stern, CEO of Project Dynamo, a nonprofit that teamed up with the governor on the project, accused the DeSantis administration of organizing a hasty operation to boost his 2024 presidential campaign. “That is why the state people were in a rush to get a flight loaded a
'I think you're just getting in the way of what's going on,' he said.
The CEO of an organization that partnered on the flights said the state was “in a rush” to help DeSantis score political points.