{"id":476071,"date":"2021-05-05T22:35:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=476071"},"modified":"2021-05-05T22:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:35:41","slug":"desantis-gives-all-first-responders-in-florida-1000-bonuses-were-funding-the-police-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-gives-all-first-responders-in-florida-1000-bonuses-were-funding-the-police-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Gives All First Responders In Florida $1,000 Bonuses: \u2018We\u2019re Funding\u2019 The Police \u2018And Then Some\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-gives-all-first-responders-in-florida-1000-bonuses-were-funding-the-police-and-then-some%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=476071&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DeSantis-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that his administration is giving $1,000 bonuses to all of Florida\u2019s 174,000 first responders, including law enforcement officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>The move by DeSantis, a rising star in the Republican Party, comes after far-left Democrats across the U.S. repeatedly called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-proposed-budget-would-cut-1-billion-from-nypd-aoc-it-isnt-enough\">defunding<\/a> the police last year, and have this year gone as far as to call for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-rashida-tlaib-goes-extreme-no-more-policing-and-incarceration-it-cant-be-reformed\">abolishing policing and ending the incarceration system<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 office said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>The authorization comes following the Governor\u2019s call for the bonuses in March, with the bonuses included in the 2021-22 state budget. While the budget is not yet signed, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is working to immediately implement this bonus program, expediting the distribution effort. Approximately $208 million has been allocated from DEO for over 174,000 first responders across the state, including 49,405 sworn law enforcement officers, 40,732 EMTs, 35,811 firefighters and 33,185 paramedics in Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSupporting our law enforcement and first responders has been a top priority for my administration, and it has never been more important than over the last year. As a state, we are grateful for their continued service to our communities,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/05\/05\/governor-ron-desantis-announces-1000-pandemic-bonus-for-floridas-first-responders\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis one-time bonus is a small token of appreciation, but we can never go far enough to express our gratitude for their selflessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.862815884477\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some want to defund the police. <\/p>\n<p>In Florida, we\u2019re funding them &#038; then some by providing all of our heroes $1,000 bonuses. This represents more than 174,000 first responders across the state!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude94\ud83d\ude92\ud83d\ude91 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZMcB9T620g\">pic.twitter.com\/ZMcB9T620g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1390024390897721347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that his administration is giving $1,000 bonuses to all of Florida\u2019s 174,000 first responders, including law enforcement officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277426,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DeSantis-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Gives All First Responders In Florida $1,000 Bonuses: \u2018We\u2019re Funding\u2019 The Police \u2018And Then Some\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DeSantis-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"DeSantis Gives All First Responders In Florida $1,000 Bonuses: \u2018We\u2019re Funding\u2019 The Police \u2018And Then Some\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}