It’s not clear how much Florida legislators will accomplish during a special session starting on Monday after Republicans protested loudly they didn’t want to cooperate with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) demands.
President Donald Trump’s push to quickly overhaul the nation’s immigration system is at the center of a civil war between Republicans in Florida, with Gov. Ron DeSantis facing off against the GOP-dominated state Legislature.
A special legislative session called by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take up a series of proposals to help implement President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was quickly nixed by top Republican state lawmakers.
Republicans in Tallahassee rejected a DeSantis proposal, instead coming up with their own immigration plan to match President Donald Trump’s orders.
This was the first time the Republican-controlled legislature denied a Republican governor a special session since the GOP took control in the 1990s.
Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature will revamp immigration laws this week but issued a sharp rebuke Monday to Gov. Ron DeSantis that included overriding a budget veto from last year.
In a stunning move, the GOP-led Florida Legislature on Monday rebuffed a push by Gov. Ron DeSantis to pass a slew of bills on immigration.
President Trump is scheduled to come back to the Sunshine State Saturday before attending the GOP retreat at his Doral golf club.
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Even as DeSantis called the new bill "weaker," legislative Republicans pushed their legislation through the committee process Monday.
In place of the state, a nonprofit association has regulatory authority over about two dozen of the facilities.