Big Beautiful Bill

During a news conference celebrating national School Choice Week in Valrico, DeSantis and Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas announced Florida’s participation in the federal tax credit program established by the One Big Beautiful Bill last summer.

As an increasing number of Florida food-stamp recipients have to meet work requirements, the state faces a potentially significant tab from the federal government.

"We’re facing a national crisis with an administration pushing authoritarianism day-in and day-out," Wilson said during Wednesday night's tele-town hall. "Democrats are ready to give it our all because this moment demands that we rise to the occasion.”

Included in the Republican Party's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is funding to power President Donald Trump's deportation agenda. The nearly $170 billion is almost double the Department of Homeland Security's annual budget and is raising alarms.

While the law makes upward of $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, it unexpectedly did not repeal portions of a Biden administration rule meant to make children’s health insurance (CHIP) programs like Florida’s operate more like Medicaid by banning eligibility waiting periods and enrollment lockouts.

The groups organized a protest Saturday afternoon at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami to call out “Big Ugly Bill” — President Donald Trump’s sweeping federal spending measure they say slashes critical services for low-income residents while enriching the ultra-wealthy.

On "The Florida Roundup," PolitiFact chief correspondent Louis "Lou" Jacobson breaks down changes to the taxation of Social Security benefits.

South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined other top House Democrats at a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of the party’s strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

The measure ends tax incentives that pay for nearly a third of the cost of installing solar panels. Maggie Shober and Stan Cross of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy say the change may threaten thousands of jobs.