US Senator Marco Rubio was in the state capitol today meeting with state lawmakers from his own party. While in Tallahassee Rubio spoke about his efforts to reduce federal spending. He also met with Governor Rick Scott and says Scott?s decision to turn down the 2.4 billion dollars for high speed rail was the right one. <\/p>\n

?The issue is whether we can afford it and tragically we can’t because until we get spending straightened out in Washington it’s going to be very difficult to fund projects like these,” said Rubio. <\/p>\n

The state has until Friday to come up with a plan to go around the governor and secure the federal money. Lawyers from the US Department of Transportation have been talking with Scott, trying to convince him to change his mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Senator Marco Rubio was in the state capitol today meeting with state lawmakers from his own party. While in Tallahassee Rubio spoke about his efforts to reduce federal spending. He also met with Governor Rick Scott and says Scott?s decision to turn down the 2.4 billion dollars for high speed rail was the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11666,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions\/11666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flanews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}