DeSantis Expresses Disappointment Over Lack of Federal Funding for Florida Everglades

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, arrive to visit a memorial to those missing outside the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on July 03, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. Over one hundred people are being reported as missing as the search-and-rescue effort continues. Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), along with a delegation of state and federal lawmakers, assembled at the edge of the Florida Everglades on Jan. 31 to express their disappointment in the Biden administration’s failure to allocate funding to advance the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA).

The governor said that while the state is “doing its part” in reducing harmful discharges from Lake Okeechobee into South Florida rivers and estuaries, the Biden administration had failed to include additional funding in the upcoming presidential budget for the EAA reservoir, which DeSantis called “the crown jewel” for restoring the Everglades.