7 Budget Vetoes That Prove Ron DeSantis Can Be a Real Prick
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersGov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a $116.5 billion budget, but not before vetoing $511 million for mostly local projects.The veto list is a drop in the bucket compared to past years—it’s less than half of the $1 billion-plus he vetoed in what he called the “veto equivalent of the Red Wedding” three years ago, and far below the $3.1 billion he excised last year.Some of the vetoes were expected. Nobody expected DeSantis to let t