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Governor Ron DeSantis Asked How The Federal Government Will Reimburse Florida For Alligator Alcatraz
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7/8/2025
At a press briefing on Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spoke about being reimbursed by the federal government for Alligator Alcatraz.
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How it would be on anything so federal government reimburses us for stuff all
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the time so for example you know when we have when we had hurricane Milton the
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Biden was president then he signed 100% reimbursement for debris and for
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emergency protective measures and so all the debris stuff would be done by local
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governments and then they would submit and then they would get reimbursed 100%
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and the state could get reimbursed if we're putting in it as well so so there's
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no different than how it's been that will be something that will be that will be
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done and I think that's probably the most efficient way to do it now I think
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they do have more money now in the agency so we'll see what they're doing and part
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of the reason we've gotten so leaned in on this is because I just know that Biden
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really decimated ice you know he was telling people just come illegally like
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that he was inviting people to come to this country they were not serious about
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interior enforcement so I knew that and I knew that there were major gaps and I
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knew there's no way you were going to be able to fulfill the mission if the states
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and locals just sat on their hands so we're happy to do this I think it's
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important to finally get this issue right the same time you know if DHS is
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able to handle all this themselves then fine you know I we don't need any credit
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for anything we just want to get the job done but yes it'll be reimbursed just
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like we would do on any time we get reimbursed from from the federal
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government and you know people throw around how much the cut I don't know that
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those numbers are accurate because I think it depends on how many people end up
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being processed through and how long this stuff goes I mean what we're doing is
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temporary we're not going to make permanent sites on these on these locations
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you know the place down in South Florida it's just massive airport that's there
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in the Everglades there's really it's security wise it's totally foolproof but
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massive slabs of concrete out there and so you know they're said they set up with
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temporary structures on that and then they'll break them down and move when
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it's done and same with Blandy Blanding has more permanent structures that can be
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used for this but the intent is not to commandeer that indefinitely the intent is
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to help the mission and if the feds have enough space you know in six months or a
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year then great and then then we won't necessarily need to be doing it but but
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there is a need now and we're not just going to sit on our hands and if every
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state did what Florida is doing if every state just did a fraction of what
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Florida is doing you would see you know how much progress would be made very very
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quickly but you know we're not used to kind of being out in front of the pack
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when it comes to a lot of these issues
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