“If you said tomorrow there would be no tax on anybody’s homesteaded property, personal residence, the amount of money that we would need in Florida to backfill all that revenue for those fiscally constrained counties is about $300 million a year. And I’m just telling you that is budget dust, like that’s easy for us to do,” DeSantis said.

On the 105th day of what was supposed to be a 60-day session, Florida lawmakers gave final approval to a leaner state budget totaling $115.1 billion, marking the end of a lawmaking season that was largely defined by inter-party clashes in the Republican-dominated capitol.