Doubts rise over whether DeSantis had budget authority to fly migrants

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/desantis-immigrants-marthas-vineyard-venezuela-00057673 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has defended flying nearly 50 mostly Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in part by saying that Florida lawmakers gave him $12 million for such transports.

Yet the transports, which triggered widespread outrage from Democrats and launched an investigation by a Democratic sheriff in Texas, sparked ongoing questions about whether DeSantis had carried out the program as the Republican-controlled Legislature intended.