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Republicans triggered the “nuclear option” to change the rules of the Senate on a party-line basis Thursday, a move that will allow them to speed up confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees for key executive branch positions.
The vote was 53-45 to establish a new rule that allows the Senate to confirm an unlimited number of nominees en bloc, rather than process each one individually.
Florida’s sales-tax exemption on a variety of hunting equipment including guns and ammunition began on Monday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Monday to celebrate the beginning of what he’s calling the “Second Amendment Sales-Tax Holiday, which runs through the end of the year.
In a landmark decision, a Florida appeals court on Wednesday struck down Florida’s law against openly carrying a gun in public as unconstitutional, a decades-old statute that made Florida one of only a handful of states banning gun owners from carrying a pistol on their hip or slinging a rifle over their shoulder in public.
The DNC digital ad includes a photo of Trump and Epstein together, with the “certain things in common” quote printed over it. At the bottom, the ad issues a call to action to voters to “Call Rep. Anna Paulina Luna” and, in all caps, “demand they release the files,” a reference to the infamous Epstein files that Trump himself once said should be released.
Former Brevard County School Board member Jennifer Jenkins announced Wednesday that she will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Ashley […]
Millions of Floridians could soon face skyrocketing health insurance costs. State regulators have approved steep increases to marketplace plans, and at the same time, federal tax credits that help offset premiums are set to expire.
Florida would be hit harder than any other state if Congress fails to extend the program. The state leads the nation in the number of people buying private health insurance through the marketplace. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates 1.4 million Floridians could lose coverage, nearly doubling the uninsured rate.
In a Faculty in the South survey conducted by various conferences of the American Association of University Professors, 31% of Florida respondents said they have applied for a job outside of Florida since 2023. That number was 25% among all survey respondents in the South.
The same, 31% of Florida respondents, said they plan to seek employment in another state during the next hiring cycle.
After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one thing clear: This decision was based on no science, just vibes. Under Ladapo’s leadership, Florida’s rates of routine childhood vaccination—shots that protect against catastrophic diseases like polio and tetanus—have already declined. Today, the immunization rate for kindergartners is 90 percent, the lowest it’s been in a decade, and below the threshold required to prevent the spread of some serious illnesses. The rate of families seeking religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements has increased over the past few years.”
Collins, a chaplain in the Air Force Reserve, also explained that his mandate from President Trump is to make it “easier for veterans to get their health care when and where it’s most convenient for them,” by giving them greater choice between in-house and outsourced care. To do this, he planned to lean on the network of 1.7 million private-sector providers who are part of the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP), created by the VA MISSION Act of 2018. Annual reimbursement of these non-VHA doctors, therapists, hospitals, and clinics now costs the federal government more than $30 billion per year, nearly one-third of the VA’s entire direct care budget.
A scandal-plagued former Republican congressman is reportedly mulling a Capitol Hill comeback.
Madison Cawthorn, 30, a former Republican representative from North Carolina, is considering running for Florida’s 19th congressional district, sources familiar with the matter revealed to Axios.
The seat would be vacant because its current occupant, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is running for governor. Cawthorn has not formally announced his campaign.
Florida would be the first in the nation to completely eliminate vaccine requirements that many health experts credit with nearly eliminating some diseases. Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Director Robert Steinbrook said ending all vaccine mandates is a “recipe for disaster” and goes in the wrong direction. He urged the Legislature to stand against the DeSantis administration.
Siding with Gov. Ron DeSantis, a federal appeals court decided Thursday that “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, will not shut down.
The 2-to-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stayed federal judge Kathleen Williams’ order to the state to stop bringing people to the site and to dismantle much of it by September’s end. The higher court’s decision came just two weeks after Williams handed down her preliminary injunction.