{"id":67821,"date":"2026-03-02T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/ron-desantis-spent-1-2m-per-day-to-open-and-operate-alligator-alcatraz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:57:27","slug":"ron-desantis-spent-1-2m-per-day-to-open-and-operate-alligator-alcatraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/ron-desantis-spent-1-2m-per-day-to-open-and-operate-alligator-alcatraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending taxpayers\u2019 money, Florida governor will likely be left holding bill for $608m promised by Trump administration<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a>\u2019s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers\u2019 money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/04\/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report\">Alligator Alcatraz<\/a>, court records obtained by the independent investigative news website the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridatrib.org\/2026\/03\/01\/new-records-show-florida-officials-burned-more-than-1-2-million-per-day-on-alligator-alcatraz\/\">Florida Tributary<\/a> reveal.<\/p>\n<p>A switch in position by Donald Trump\u2019s 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridatrib.org\/2026\/02\/06\/desantis-spent-573-million-on-immigration-the-feds-may-never-pay-florida-back\/\">the outlet said<\/a>. That was despite <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1973863499274371455\">gloating by DeSantis<\/a> in September that the state would be reimbursed from federal funds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/02\/ron-desantis-12-million-on-alligator-alcatraz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending taxpayers\u2019 money, Florida governor will likely be left holding bill for $608m promised by Trump administration Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Ron DeSantis, Florida\u2019s Republican governor, spent $1.2m of taxpayers\u2019 money per day to open and operate the notorious immigration jail known as &#8230; <a title=\"Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/ron-desantis-spent-1-2m-per-day-to-open-and-operate-alligator-alcatraz\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ron DeSantis spent $1.2m per day to open and operate \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}