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TALLAHASSEE Floridas Republican governor will end a Trump program to boost unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans because the states bare-bones jobless program is too poor to continue qualifying for the federal boost.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, an ally of President Donald Trump, is scrapping the extra $300 in weekly benefits because the state pays its unemployed workers too little to meet a 25 percent matching requirement. Florida appears to be the first state in the nation to halt the program because of its cost.
The move comes eight weeks before Election Day, as Trump is counting on his adopted home state to win a second term. If Trump loses Florida, his pathway to reelection could be difficult or impossible.
Republican and Democratic state legislators were surprised by the DeSantis decision, which was revealed without fanfare late Monday. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed residents remain in desperate need of financial help due to the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic shutdown, and more than 3 million people in Florida have applied for some form of state or federal unemployment help since mid-March.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-we-can-t-afford-trump-s-jobless-aid-anymore/ar-BB199v0W?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP
Thekaspervote
(34,628 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)GOP,you are toast. Never screw with a person's pocket book in any election cycle.
lark
(24,147 posts)Praying for karma for him and all the other rw murderers for profit.
jb5150
(1,285 posts)I didn't qualify because my unemployment was less than 100.00.