Both the Florida House and Senate have released their proposed spending plans for the year ahead.

The budgets are full of money for everything from education to road construction, but there's a growing controversy over the money that's not there.

The stage is now set for a showdown over Medicaid expansion. There's a reason why the budget plan unveiled by the Florida Senate is $5 billion bigger than the House version: it includes money for expansion, while the House version doesn't touch it.

For two years now, House Republican leaders have been refusing to accept more than $50 billion in federal funding to cover around 1 million uninsured Floridians.

Now, in what amounts to a penalty, Washington is pledging to revoke $1.3 billion in hospital funding, and that could throw the state budget into red.

That's why Senate Republicans have come up with a Medicaid expansion plan to take that federal money and use it to buy private health insurance policies. But the House won't even go for that, a position underscored by the $76 billion budget it came out with on Friday.

If the federal government does make good on its threat and revoke that $1.3 billion, it could be a critical bargaining chip when it comes time to hammer out a final budget.

Essentially, the House would have a hard choice to make: either expand Medicaid or deal with a deficit that could make a passing GOP tax cut package difficult, if not impossible.

Environmental advocates are upset with both chambers. They say there's too little money for Amendment 1, which is the measure voters passed last fall that mandated $10 billion to be spent on the environment over the next 20 years.

The Senate budget would slash the current land buying program by 84 percent.