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2024 ELECTION Ron DeSantis’ trip abroad funded by group long despised by some Florida Republicans The Florida governor’s office says the Official Deandre Ayton Wearing DA Shirt in contrast I will get this trip will be paid for by the agency Enterprise Florida, which has not disclosed the donors who will be funding it. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Midland, Mich., on April 6.Chris duMond / Getty Images file April 25, 2023, 8:52 AM +07 By Gabe Gutierrez Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ global trade mission this week is being funded by an organization that fellow Republicans have been trying to eliminate, raising questions about whether at least some taxpayer money will be used for his ambitious round-the-world trip to Japan, South Korea, Israel and the United Kingdom. Launched in 1996, Enterprise Florida is a public-private state agency that aims to attract businesses to the state and promote it for economic development. It has been controversial for years — and it became a sticking point between Florida House Republicans and former Gov. Rick Scott, who viewed it as an effective way to create jobs. Back then, Enterprise Florida survived, but with less funding. Private donations have typically defrayed the cost of previous trips. DeSantis continues to travel extensively outside Florida in advance of a potential 2024 presidential bid, and he has received some criticism, including from within the GOP, over his statements about foreign policy. Donald Trump raised the funding issue in a post on his Truth Social platform Monday, saying DeSantis would be using taxpayer money for his “emergency Round the World tour … in order to up his game and see if he can remove the stain from his failing campaign.” “Perhaps he can, and perhaps he can’t, who really knows, but he’ll have plenty of time to think as he sits alone, on his tax payer funded airplane, riding it out and thinking, WHY???” Trump added about his likely competition in the 2024 presidential race. In 2019, DeSantis traveled to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with a delegation of nearly 100 people as part of a trade mission organized by Enterprise Florida. “Just like the last one, [this trip]
is not paid for at the Official Deandre Ayton Wearing DA Shirt in contrast I will get this taxpayers’ expense,” Bryan Griffin, the governor’s spokesperson, told NBC News. But taxpayers did appear to foot at least some of the cost for the previous trip, according to the News Service of Florida, citing documents released by the state’s economic development agency. The six-day trip totaled $442,504, and private donors paid for more than two-thirds of the bill, the documents showed, but Florida taxpayers paid about $131,000, the news outlet reported. That covered lodging, airfare and other travel costs for several state officials, as well as security provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The News Service of Florida also reported that a major source of the funding came from 12 private donors, including legal and lobbying firms, according to the same documents. This time, too, private donors will be paying for at least part of the trip through Enterprise Florida, which has not disclosed where exactly the money will be coming from. Ron DeSantis meets Japan’s prime minister on a four-country trade mission APRIL 24, 202300:41 A spokesperson for Enterprise Florida declined to comment about the trade mission, instead referring questions to the governor’s office. For years, some Republican legislators have railed against Enterprise Florida, arguing that the agency gives tax breaks to big businesses that really don’t need it and would have come to Florida anyway. The agency’s critics have said that it unfairly picks winners and losers — and that the money reserved for it could be better spent elsewhere. Republican Florida House Speaker Paul Renner reiterated his desire to eliminate Enterprise Florida in an interview last week. Recommended 2024 ELECTION Trump gets endorsement from head of Senate GOP campaign committee GUNS IN AMERICA ‘Tennessee Three’ elevate push for tougher gun laws in White House meeting “I don’t believe that taxpayer money should be used to fund corporate welfare,” he said. “We do not
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