Mills Joins Diaz-Balart, Colleagues to Request $725 Million for Florida Everglades Restoration

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Everglades Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-26) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-25) hosted a roundtable discussion with Florida Delegation Members and stakeholders to discuss priorities for the 118th Congress.

Representative Mills was joined by Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Darren Soto (FL-9), Kathy Castor (FL-14), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-10), John Rutherford (FL-5), Bill Posey (FL-8), Scott Franklin (FL-18), Brian Mast (FL-21), Carlos A. Gimenez (FL-28), Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24),  Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Byron Donalds (FL-19), Laurel Lee (FL-15), Michael Waltz (FL-6), Daniel Webster (FL-11), and Senator Marco Rubio, in a letter to President Biden requesting an allocation of $725 million in his FY24 budget request for critical projects to revitalize the Everglades.

“I am pleased to join my Florida colleagues to request essential funds for our Everglades in the Sunshine State. Ensuring we have funding to protect Florida’s natural resources is essential to preserving and conserving our spaces, and I look forward to continuing this good work for the people of Florida’s seventh district.”

Read the full letter, here. 

Media Contact: Millspress@mail.house.gov

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