Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
After spending taxpayers’ money, Florida governor will likely be left holding bill for $608m promised by Trump administration
Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers’ money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as Alligator Alcatraz, court records obtained by the independent investigative news website the Florida Tributary reveal.
A switch in position by Donald Trump’s administration also now looks likely to leave Florida on the hook for at least $608m spent on the harsh Everglades detention and deportation facility and other immigration jails, the outlet said. That was despite gloating by DeSantis in September that the state would be reimbursed from federal funds.
James Uthmeier, DeSantis’s former chief of staff and Florida’s unelected attorney general, admitted last week the possibility that a federal reimbursement grant the governor had insisted was locked in might not be delivered after all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/ron-desantis-12-million-on-alligator-alcatrazOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
See, though, that’s kinda the opposite of the headline. Why didn;t the word “taxpayer’s” get into the headline?
A Trump never pays his debts.
No, he spent other people's money.
Funneled.
That money went somewhere and I bet he and his friends got a good amount of it.
(as noted in the recap, but left out of the title) Florida residents spent that money. Ron just signed the checks.
People really need to wake up and realize they're making life worse for us with our own money.
I am so exhausted with our tax revenue being used by politicians to prove points. I just want my life to improve.
How many people did he feed to the alligators? That's presumably how he paid the alligators
*Ron DeSadist
Ron DeathSentence
It's OK, the old white retired Florida racists loved seeing brown people suffering.
I’m sure they would buy tickets to go tour it and mock the brown people in cages
They need to dredge that swamp for bones
He wanted so desperately to be part of the Border Crossing War, but Florida doesn't have a border with Mexico, so he had to do the best he could with Alligator Alcatraz.
If he had been controlling a border, he would have been a monster.
well.. he is a monster, he just doesn't have a border. Best representative Florida has, or voters would not have elected him /s
Rhonda Santis is a member of the party or fiscal responsibility