Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed President Donald Trump’s proposal to spend emergency pandemic dollars to boost the state’s paltry unemployment benefits during a news conference Tuesday.
“That’s not an option for us in Florida, because those CARES Act dollars are obligated already,” DeSantis told reporters.
Until last month, unemployed Americans were getting $600 per week on top of their state benefits, thanks to a bill Congress passed at the beginning of the pandemic in March. To replace it, Trump’s idea is to allow states to spend emergency pandemic and natural disaster funds to offer benefits of $400 per week. But the emergency CARES Act dollars that Trump said would pay for the unemployment relief in his plan have already been assigned to pandemic-related expenses, DeSantis said.
While other governors balked at Trump’s plan or dismissed it as a political stunt, Florida lawmakers from both parties were receptive to it Monday. With nearly 800,000 jobless Floridians relying on such meager benefits, the state doesn’t have a choice but to find a way to increase how much they receive each week, they said.
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