PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), along with a delegation of state and federal lawmakers, assembled at the edge of the Florida Everglades on Jan. 31 to express their disappointment in the Biden administration’s failure to allocate funding to advance the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). The governor said that while the state is “doing its part” in reducing harmful discharges from Lake Okeechobee into South Florida rivers and estuaries, the Biden administration had failed to include additional funding in the upcoming presidential budget for the EAA reservoir, which DeSantis called “the crown jewel” for restoring the Everglades. “The Biden administration failed to dedicate any of the recently passed $1.2 trillion infrastructure funding to the EAA reservoir, not one dime going to this vital project,” DeSantis said. “We’re going to keep rallying to make sure that we get the support we need from the federal government. They’ve said they would …