Gov. Ron DeSantis says there’s not much urgency to get promised monies from the Donald Trump administration for Alligator Alcatraz .

DeSantis said in Tallahassee that what he “said from the beginning on this” still holds and that the state “will get reimbursed eventually.”

Critics have suggested the spend is significant, with independent journalist Jason Garcia noting that more than $350 million in contracts have been signed.

The vendor-managed project was projected to cost $245 per bed, or $450 million a year, and was scheduled to be reimbursed from the Federal Emergency Management Agency .

DeSantis says help is on the way from the federal border czar.

“I saw Tom Homan the other day, and he’s just like ‘send us your reimbursements. You know, we got a l

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