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12/09/2025

Senate Majority Leader Jim Boyd, who also sits on the legislative budget commission, told McClure that the Senate “shares your concern and desire for fiscal responsibility.”

Florida’s budget outlook for the coming year is stable, but the prospect of potential deficits in the near future led the state House budget chief to suggest Friday that his chamber once again seek to lower state spending. Lawmakers earlier this year clashed over the budget, leading to a lengthy s...

12/09/2025

‘We cannot allow us to be bullied into submission and to allow others to dictate what we should do in our own communities.’

No doubt Gov. Ron DeSantis expects Floridians to be grateful for saving us from yet another woke attack on decency, probity, and speeding motorists. I refer, of course, to colorful crosswalks. Just as he has fought to expel books by Black and gay authors from our schools, the governor has ordered FD...

12/09/2025

Tr“As an end-run around this prohibition, Defendants have enlisted the government of Ghana to do their dirty work.”

WASHINGTON — A Friday lawsuit from a civil rights group accused the Trump administration of bypassing deportation restrictions on immigrants slated for removal by sending them to Ghana and having the West African nation deport them to their countries of origin, despite credible findings they could...

12/09/2025

“We got him,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said.

22-year-old Tyler Robinson is in custody after a family member said he had suggested he shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.

12/09/2025

“These institutions are effective engines of economic mobility because they meet students where they are and are dedicated to educating the whole person."

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education announced it will withhold $350 million of congressionally approved funds to minority-serving colleges and universities and divert the funds elsewhere, saying that the institutions’ admissions quotas are discriminatory. The move eliminated fiscal 202...

12/09/2025

"We will continue to fight this unconstitutional law, even though this court has allowed it to impact patients.”

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can block Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood after an appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s preliminary injunction. Republicans in Congress included the one-year funding prohibition in their “big, beautiful” law, which Presi...

12/09/2025

‘If they’re caught celebrating the assassination of someone expressing free speech, they obviously haven’t learned the lesson.’

Two Florida cabinet members would support the U.S. Department of State revoking visas of legal immigrants who celebrate the assassination of right-wing mogul Charlie Kirk.

12/09/2025

“You have unidentified federal agents coming in, seizing people’s property, but more importantly, seizing people. It undermines the very premise upon which community policing is supposed to work,” Fox said.

WASHINGTON — A siren blared down one of Washington, D.C.’s busiest thoroughfares. And then, a loud noise. Residents in nearby apartment buildings peered through windows and from balconies to find a dark-colored SUV bumped up against a moped lying on the ground. A dog walker called 911 to report ...

11/09/2025

“While the opinion at this point is not yet final as the court allows for time for the filing of a motion for rehearing or reconsideration, there’s no reason to expect that the court will reverse its decision,” Ivey said.

Following Wedneday’s decision by the Florida First District Court of Appeal striking the state’s ban on openly carrying fi****ms, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey says his deputies will no longer enforce the ban – even though the law hasn’t changed yet. In a video message posted on X Wednes...

11/09/2025

In recalling the deadliest attack on the United States, Trump said the “entire world came crashing down” for loved ones of the 2,977 victims.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump honored slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as he remembered the victims of Sept. 11 during a ceremony Thursday in Virginia, and announced he would posthumously award the popular figure the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kirk, the late co-founder and head o...

11/09/2025

“It’s been said by people in the last few years, especially in the last year, that the state of Florida, because of what we’ve done, we won’t be able to attract great presidential candidates. And if you look around the room, I think we’ve got some of the best presidents in the country."

The Florida Board of Governors approved the University of Florida’s second consecutive interim president Thursday, and his contract includes a financial penalty for the university if he is not named formal president. Donald Landry, a medical researcher and professor most recently at Columbia Unive...

11/09/2025

“The key is, will the other two end up destroying each other and leave an avenue for someone like him? That’s really the only real strategy that he’s got right now." https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/11/renner-brewing-civil-war-between-trump-desantis-republicans-could-clear-his-path-to-victory/