H-1B, Ron DeSantis and university of south Florida
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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the Charlie Kirk prize for Florida's civics debate championship and formed a partnership with Turning Point USA for high school chapters.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has made a bizarre social media flex about his state’s readiness to kill citizens on death row. DeSantis spent Tuesday evening on his X account, posting about “the Marxist agenda” of Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani and calling Wikipedia a biased “dumpster fire.
Gov. Ron DeSantis continued to jab at House Republicans over property taxes on Wednesday and insisted that voters should be given just one proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul the system instead of multiple proposals.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed Assistant State Attorney Hector Bustos to serve as the newest judge on the Clay County Court, filling a position created earlier this year under Senate Bill 2508. Emerging from an initial field of five candidates and winnowed down to three finalists, Bustos got the nod for the court on Thursday.
Perez countered that DeSantis was being “small and petty” – or he plans to slash K-12 funding. That’s because one of the House bills would eliminate non-school property taxes for homesteaded properties.
Gov. DeSantis directs scrutiny of H-1B visa use in Florida universities and repurposes grants away from DEI programs.
Speaking at a news conference at the University of South Florida in Tampa on Wednesday, DeSantis urged the state’s Board of Governors to put an end to H-1B visa sponsorships at public universities, framing the move as a step toward prioritizing American workers in academia.
There shouldn’t be any impediments to [Turning Point USA chapters being started] and certainly no discrimination. We’re not going to allow that," said DeSantis
The fallout is poised to affect nearly 3 million Floridians in the next few days. Instead, Ron DeSantis suggests Democratic state lawmakers send a letter to the leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate instead.