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In their 2021-22 spending request, agency officials make it clear that Florida has been stretched thin due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other recent outbreaks, including Zika and hepatitis A.

President Trump and Congress Friday authorized a package of emergency funding to help and treat and slow the spread of COVID-19. About $950 million is designated for state and local response.

President Trump proposed steep cuts to foreign aid and other programs in his budget for fiscal year 2021. The blueprint is expected to be declared dead on arrival in Congress.

Governor Ron DeSantis’ proposed state budget would fully fund Florida’s two affordable housing programs. He is recommending that all $387 million be...

Last week, a Florida Senate committee heard that a potential surplus of more than $220-million had likely disappeared for next year’s state budget...

The Trump administration this week cut the budget for programs that help people sign up for Obamacare plans by more than 70 percent.

With a light touch of his veto pen, Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a new $88.7 billion state budget, eliminating only $64 million in spending and…

Gov. Rick Scott quickly signed a new $88.7 billion state budget that boosts funding for K-12 education by $485 million. But many district superintendents…

Florida universities will share $151 million in funding next academic year that will allow them to recruit top-level researchers and improve professional…

Legislative leaders are touting this year’s $101 increase in K-12 per student funding as “unprecedented.” But education officials say that billing is...

Republicans in the Florida House are pushing for a nearly $350 million tax package that includes a new source of money for one of the nation's largest…

State dollars will be needed to speed federal repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee, under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget....