DeSantis Takes Aim At Financial Weaponization

Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday, announced comprehensive legislation to protect Floridians from what he called the Biden administration’s weaponization of the financial sector through a Central Bank Digital Currency…

The legislative proposal expressly prohibits the use of a federally adopted Central Bank Digital Currency as money within Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code, and it calls on like-minded states to join Florida in adopting similar prohibitions within their respective Commercial Codes to fight back against this concept nationwide.