Jim Turner

Congress passed the long-sought $900 billion COVID-19 relief package this week, teeing it up for action by Trump.

“Lowell has a long history of tolerance for sexual abuse and harassment, which continues to the present,” the report said.

The state has regained nearly 60 percent of the 1.18 million jobs lost between February and April as the pandemic took hold.

“The Trump brand and Trump family is probably the strongest brand that’s ever existed within the base of the party,” Gruters said.

“This is a parting gift to developers from the outgoing administration in Washington in coordination with the sitting administration in Florida.”

Florida’s unemployment rate in October was 6.5 percent, with an estimated 659,000 people qualified as unemployed out of a workforce of 10.1 million.

A final decision is expected early next year.

The state analysts projected tourism could start to experience an uptick midway through 2021, although foreign travel will continue to lag for several years.

State economists have estimated lawmakers will be working with a potential budget shortfall of about $2.7 billion for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

“One of the things we can do to help Central Florida is, and I think the president wants to do this, let’s get travel from Brazil back, let’s get travel from the European countries back,” DeSantis said.

Almost 40 percent of the state’s public-school students have been studying remotely in the current semester.

“There really isn’t any one particular thing that we can hang our hat on and say, ‘Well, this is what protected Florida this year.’”

Overseas travelers could reach 6.8 million in the 2023 fiscal year, reach 9 million the next year, but not reach 10 million until the 2028 fiscal year.

Since mid-March, the department has received 4.68 million jobless claims.

The economic impact of the pandemic could stretch across years, even if vaccines start to become available in the coming months.

“We need to stop treating our environmental budget like a giant pork-barrel buffet.”

“We cannot blame all of law enforcement for the sins of a few.”

“We didn’t just hold the line,” Sprowls said. “We didn’t just pick up one seat or two. We picked up five.”

The chamber on Friday called the task-force process “a new way of deliberately planning for the population increases we know we are going to have.”

Morgan says he’s “happy” with the job DeSantis is doing and doesn’t see himself running for political office or bankrolling another amendment.