TALLAHASSEE — The tentative budget deal Florida’s legislative leaders made last week has “blown up,” according to a memo from House Speaker Daniel Perez.
Florida’s 2025 session is already in overtime, as Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton have been unable to agree on a budget, the only required duty the Legislature must complete.
The disintegration of the leaders’ deal means the legislative session will be pushed even longer. On Friday, the last scheduled day of the session, lawmakers approved a resolution to extend the session until June 6.
Now, the House intends to extend the session “through the end of June,” Perez said in his memo.
The latest budget update comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis this week announced he would likely veto the House’s plan for a sales tax cut, saying “any Florida last tax package is going to be dead on arrival.”
Perez has championed the sales tax cut, but Albritton has been more hesitant to make the proposed sweeping change.
Last week, Albritton said “as part of our agreement with the House,” the Senate would take up a tax relief package that includes $2.8 billion in cuts.
“I was disappointed when the Senate President informed me of his decision to no longer bring the House’s historic tax proposal to the Senate floor,“ Perez said in his memo. ”As I’m sure you can appreciate, this blew up the framework for the budget deal we had negotiated.”
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