Florida budget to be slashed, but teachers’ pay increase goes forward

Published June 25, 2020 7:00pm ET



With less than a week before Florida’s new fiscal year begins, Gov. Ron DeSantis has vowed to slash the $93.2 billion budget lawmakers adopted in March with the “veto equivalent of the Red Wedding from ‘Game of Thrones.’ ”

State revenues were $1.8 billion short of March and April estimates, and some analysts forecast up to $10 billion in state revenue shortfalls for the coming fiscal year.

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