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Miami City Commissioners adopted the city’s record spending plan after last-minute changes shifted millions for festivals, personnel and other expenses. The amendment detailing those changes wasn’t publicly available before the final hearing.

An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement. The U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Thursday documents costly problems with several initiatives ICE has pursued since President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered the mass detention and deportation of people who were in the country illegally.

Miami-Dade now has an independent elected sheriff who can appeal to the state over budget needs — and essentially force county cuts of other services. At an intense overnight budget hearing, Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz did not get all her demands and would not rule out going to Tallahassee to get more money.

Acting as the newly created State Board of Immigration Enforcement, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved more than $87 million in immigration reimbursements for 56 local law enforcement agencies, most of it for radios and AI policing systems.

On June 2, the Republican-controlled Legislature voted in favor of putting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ property tax amendment on the ballot for voters to consider in the November election.

Monroe County Mayor Michelle Lincoln sent a letter Friday to members of the Florida Legislature expressing deep concerns over the proposed bill, known as SJR 2-F, just ahead of the start of Monday's special legislative session in Tallahassee.

The Florida House in its first budget offer during the budget special session is standing by its earlier refusal to fund the Florida State Guard, a former centerpiece of the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration.

The agreement reached Thursday involves top-line numbers, known as allocations.

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico's governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory. The organizations signed a letter released Wednesday that was sent to Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright

More than 42,000 children are waiting for Florida to roll out a health insurance program that was supposed to go into effect two years ago.

Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez issued separate statements advising their respective members they won’t need to travel to Tallahassee next week for a special session on the budget.

The House and Senate are expected to take time off before returning to work out the differences in their proposed spending plans.