DeSantis said he sent $900M back to the feds. Here's the rest of the story
Gov. Ron DeSantis generated headlines and praise over the weekend after announcing that Florida was helping Elon Musks DOGE efforts by returning nearly $900 million to the federal government.
Almost a billion dollars of your taxpayer money saved, Musk touted.
The claim was misleading. The money DeSantis said he was returning was for two federal programs that Florida never asked for in the first place. One of them was more than a year old.
Those details were left out of the governors Friday night announcement on X, which was viewed 33 million times. In the post, DeSantis said that Florida was trying for years to return money to the federal government, but President Joe Bidens administration couldnt even figure out how to accept it.
Today, I met with @elonmusk and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the same day, DeSantis wrote, referring to President Donald Trumps Department of Government Efficiency.
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