Progress Florida & Florida Watch Statements on the Signing of the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act
Today, President Joe Biden will sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will direct billions of dollars of much needed funding to Florida to address our state’s critical infrastructure needs. In response, Progress Florida Executive Director Mark Ferrulo and Florida Watch Executive Director Josh Weierbach issue the following statements: “Once again, President Biden has delivered on his promise […]
With Florida in Crisis, Governor Ron DeSantis Continues 2024 Campaign for President in Nevada
his week, Florida broke a record for the amount of Floridians hospitalized due to coronavirus, parents across the state nervously sent their children back to schools where mask mandates had been banned, and red tide continued to cause fish kills along the west coast.
Governor DeSantis’ Press Conference – Statements from Florida Watch & Progress Florida
his morning, Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference inside a packed restaurant in Cape Coral to once again contradict scientific guidance on safety protocols amid a global pandemic.
Statements from Florida Watch & Progress Florida on Governor DeSantis’ Signing of HB 233
Once again, Governor Ron DeSantis is focusing on non-existent issues rather than confronting the real problems facing everyday Floridians following a deadly global pandemic and years of neglect from Republican leadership in our state.
Statement from Florida Watch Board Member Sean Shaw on Ashley Moody Roundtable
One day after a new report showed that under unified Republican control of Florida state government violent crime in Florida rose for the first time since 2015, Attorney General Ashley Moody convened a partisan roundtable in Miami to attack a non-existent problem.
Statement from Florida Watch on Governor DeSantis’ Signing of the Budget
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the budget, buoyed by billions of dollars in federal aid provided by President Joe Biden and the American Rescue Plan.
Damning leaked video exposes GOP’s coordinated strategy to make it harder to vote
In the 2020 elections, more Floridians cast ballots than ever before, setting a new record for turnout in the state.
Ron DeSantis just raised your taxes
Republican legislators passed what will amount to an estimated $1 billion annual tax increase on online purchases and that Gov. DeSantis signed the massive tax increase into law in the middle of the night.
Florida Watch and Progress Florida react to passage of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan
“Here in Florida, we’re facing a budget shortfall and we’re the only state in the country that has no plan for distributing vaccines — except to DeSantis’ big campaign contributors.”
DeSantis puts wealthiest, not neediest, Floridians at head of line for vaccines…again
“Ron DeSantis has repeatedly put corporate special interests and his campaign donors ahead of Floridians in need…This isn’t governing for the people. This is political cronyism plain and simple.”