Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly clashed with Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott over the state’s handling of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Scott wrote to governors and mayors in a Jan. 20 letter to remind them of a law requiring officials to return unspent COVID-19 relief funds to mitigate the $31.4 trillion national debt. Congress passed the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Fiscal Recovery, Infrastructure, and Disaster Relief Flexibility Act on Dec. 29 to direct state and local officials to return unspent money to mitigate the deficit.
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