DeSantis can’t escape unemployment questioning during Orlando stop

Published May 19, 2020 7:00pm ET



Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited downtown Orlando on Monday to celebrate the accelerated opening of five new ramps for the Interstate 4 and State Road 408 interchange, a long-planned multimillion dollar project designed to remedy one of Florida’s most congested traffic quagmires.

The governor, however, couldn’t escape questions over another dogged bottleneck that continues to bedevil his administration and hundreds of thousands of newly jobless Floridians after the unemployment website collapsed in March, leaving many without first payments for weeks and some still waiting to receive them.

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