Gov. Ron DeSantis

Two new laws that were demanded by Gov. Ron DeSantis have entangled every level of government, unnerving residents who had long considered the state an immigrant haven.

While it was a mostly partisan vote in support, the bill faces opposition from Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has pushed for the elimination of property taxes and a $1,000 homeowner rebate, and Senate President Ben Albritton who has rolled out a more modest tax relief package.

A charity meant to help people stay off public assistance was the signature project of Florida’s popular first lady, Casey DeSantis. But over three years, it had managed to raise only about $2 million to help struggling families in Florida. Then last fall, a $10 million windfall suddenly arrived from an unlikely source: a Medicaid contractor embroiled in a case of overbilling.

A Florida House panel is halting a probe into a foundation linked to First Lady Casey DeSantis’ signature economic-assistance program, Hope Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced the Florida House of Representatives' proposed cuts to Everglades and water quality funding at a press conference Tuesday, marking the latest in his series of criticisms of House lawmakers over agenda discrepancies.

A federal judge brought up the arrest in Leon County of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen born in Georgia, during a hearing Friday in which she extended her block of the new Florida immigration law until April 29.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration deny that the Hope Florida Foundation has done anything wrong.

Amid ongoing scrutiny of first lady Casey DeSantis' signature welfare-assistance program Hope Florida and an affiliated foundation, the executive director of the program is poised to step down from the job. Erik Dellenback said he submitted his resignation to the governor's office on March 10.

Hope Florida, First Lady Casey DeSantis' signature welfare-assistance program, is under scrutiny over questions surrounding $10 million in spending.

News reports allege that the nonprofit founded by the governor's wife Casey DeSantis gave $5 million grants to two groups. Politico reports the grants were for non-political purposes — but those groups subsequently donated similar amounts to a political committee against legalizing marijuana, that was led by the governor's then chief of staff.

The governor called the settlement "100% appropriate" and said Republican lawmakers were "grasping at straws" to reflect negatively on the settlement, which he said has "nothing to do with Hope Florida."

Lawmakers in Florida’s Republican-dominated state capitol advanced their respective plans for the state’s budget on Wednesday, but the proposals remain billions of dollars apart from each other — and from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed spending plan for the upcoming year.