The controversy concerns a $10 million payment to the Hope Florida Foundation, which is tied to first lady Casey DeSantis’s welfare assistance program Hope Florida and has led to criticism from some state House Republicans. Critics argue that this money was inappropriately used to help campaign against a ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state last November.

That money, critics say, was part of a settlement agreement involving the state’s largest Medicaid contractor, Centene. According to them, a chunk of that settlement, all of which was intended to be returned to state and federal coffers, was sent to the Hope Florida Foundation and eventually ended up in the hands of political groups that campaigned against the ballot measure, which Gov. DeSantis was also opposed to.

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The controversy surrounding the Hope Florida Foundation goes back to last year, when the state of Florida discovered they were owed $67 million in a settlement with the Centene Corporation after the state was overbilled for Medicaid. The draft agreement obtained by media on Tuesday suggested that $10 million of that money was funneled through the charity overseen by Casey DeSantis and eventually sent to two nonprofit groups involved in the campaign against the ballot measure. One of those groups gave money to a PAC tied to DeSantis’s then-chief of staff James Uthmeier.

That seemed to contradict the DeSantis administration’s insistence that the $10 million given to the nonprofit groups was separate from the money received as part of the settlement.