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May 22, 2026

Tallahassee Budget Fight Over Job Grants Could Squeeze Treasure Coast Projects

House and Senate remain $40 million apart on the Job Growth Grant Fund, a program that has steered state dollars to local infrastructure and workforce training

Florida's House and Senate remain $40 million apart on a state economic incentive program that has delivered infrastructure and workforce dollars to communities across the Treasure Coast. The standoff...

May 23, 2026

State Budget Talks Zero In on Tampa Bay Roads — Treasure Coast Projects Still in Play

House and Senate negotiators have locked in five Tampa Bay corridors; no Treasure Coast infrastructure items confirmed in current agreement

Florida House and Senate budget negotiators have reached agreement on five Tampa Bay-area road projects in the Transportation and Economic Development conference, public documents show. With the full ...

May 23, 2026

State Budget Talks Could Deliver $200M for Local Roads, But Housing Aid Remains Stalled

Florida House doubles its local transportation offer as chambers inch toward deal — affordable housing funding gap could leave Treasure Coast projects dry

Florida's budget standoff edged closer to resolution this week as House negotiators doubled their offer for local road funding to $200 million — a figure that could direct significant dollars to Marti...

May 23, 2026

Florida Budget Deal Funds Trimmed State Guard at $8 Million After House Reversal

Treasure Coast residents' tax dollars will back 32 guard positions after House dropped its opposition in last-minute budget talks

Florida's House and Senate negotiators agreed Friday to fund a scaled-back version of Gov. Ron DeSantis' Florida State Guard at roughly $8 million — a fraction of what the Senate sought but a reversal...

May 23, 2026

Florida Legislature Approves $4M for Groveland Four Families, Nearly 80 Years Later

Bipartisan budget deal would pay $1 million each to descendants of four Black men wrongly accused in 1949 Lake County case

Nearly eight decades after a Florida sheriff's deputy shot two handcuffed men on a lonely road and a mob riddled a third with more than 400 bullets, the Florida Legislature has agreed to pay $4 millio...

May 24, 2026

Florida Budget Clock Ticks as Special Session Nears Hard Deadline

Lawmakers must finalize the state spending plan by Tuesday — or the constitutional 72-hour cooling-off period collapses the Friday vote

Florida lawmakers have one working day to salvage a budget deal. A constitutional deadline threatens to block the final vote on the state's spending plan and delay funding flowing directly to Treasure...

May 24, 2026

Florida Budget Fight Puts Jewish School Security Money at Risk of Annual Cuts

House and Senate agree on $15M total but split on how much should be permanent — a dispute that affects planning at Treasure Coast Jewish institutions

Two weeks into Florida's budget Special Session, the Legislature has agreed on how much money Jewish day schools should receive for security — but cannot agree on how much of it those schools can actu...