A.G. Gancarski
If you are one of the many out-of-work Floridians waiting on an unemployment check from D.C., the President has some advice.
“Blame the Democrats for any ‘lateness’ in your Enhanced Unemployment Insurance,” Pres. Donald Trump counseled on Twitter Monday.
“I wanted the money to be paid directly,” the President added, but Democrats “insisted it be paid by states for distribution.”
“I told them this would happen, especially with many states that have old computers,” Trump added.
The federal checks are contingent on state processing.
Florida is a prominent example of a state where people wait for checks to be sent their way. But with Republicans having been in complete control of state government for two decades, the question here is which Republican to blame.
The current Governor shirks responsibility.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has been quick to say that he inherited the problems with the state’s CONNECT website from the previous Governor, fellow Republican Rick Scott.
Perhaps the sharpest critique was recently, when DeSantis said the state’s CONNECT website, a $77 million spend earlier this decade, is a “clunker” that was “designed to fail.”
“The system was problematic,” DeSantis said, noting procurement was “five, six years ago,” in the midst of Rick Scott‘s time as Governor.
“It was designed with all these different things, basically to fail, I think,” DeSantis said to reporters in Tallahassee.
“This thing was a clunker, there’s no doubt about it,” he added.
“What’s been going on since this thing crashed is that people have been in there around the clock,” the Governor said, making technical improvements.
More “changes to the system” are needed, DeSantis noted.
The Governor has had to address the failed “jalopy” of a system for weeks now in comments to media. Friday’s came after revelations that the website would be down over the weekend to process backlogged applications.
Progress is being made, “old computers” or not.
As of Sunday, 267,000 Floridians have received payments, and he hopes to report more Monday.
But that’s notably just over half of the number of applications the Department of Economic Employment received last week.
6 comments
Angry Citizen
April 27, 2020 at 11:56 am
Desantis is correct….progress is not being made. Florida sucks. The money hungry Republican leaders took this state down…age old computer systems…dinosaur laws pertaining to criminal justice still in effect costing state tons of money and no new programs or incentives and still warehousing humans in the prisons and making money off them…no transparency…no accountability…education and teachers pay sucks…nothing amazing here…Florida is an unforgiving state on all ways known to humanity…try to place blame on Democrats…I don’t see them being the issue as much as our governor in place now…Republicans blame Democrats…Democrats blame Republicans…that is age old too…why don’t we just not worry about a Party and get a good governor who will make change and make Florida good again??? Quit the shit DeSantis…
Jeanette
April 27, 2020 at 11:57 am
You would think that you would be paid up to date. $275.00 (1 wk.) just won’t cut it. People are losing everything. Can’t seem to get State help, how in the world are we to get Federal help.
“America Great Again”……yeah right🤷♂️
Anes11
April 27, 2020 at 12:52 pm
“Warehousing humans in the prisons”….
Seriously? Look at California and New York since they got rid of bail and made serious crimes misdemeanors. Florida is the spotlight of many crime/murder/forensic shows. So yeah, let’s release all the poor oppressed criminals. Maybe they will find their way to your backyard.
Kendra Gale
April 27, 2020 at 2:07 pm
This is nonsense! Nobody knows anything to help! You call, you get hung up on, you go online and the things spins, lets you in then kicks you back to the beginning. I’m owed $5250 at this point and I’m thinking my creditors would like a good faith payment.
WHY CAN’T HE BRING SOMEONE FROM UNEMPLOYMENT TO THE NEWS CONFERENCE THAT KNOWS WHAT TO DO???!!!
Barbara
May 10, 2020 at 3:15 pm
I totally agree and here we are May 10, 2020 and still no Federal Unemployment benefits. If Trump really actually said he wanted to send out the 600.00 checks…. someone better give him a heads up he won’t win Florida with DeSantis not fixing the problem here.
Frankie M.
April 27, 2020 at 6:32 pm
Judging by the pace of the FDLE “investigation” into the Clay County Sheriff’s office I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for results. Meet the new regime. Same as the old one. At least I think that’s what Tony Khan was telling Yannick?
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