DeSantis Fights Move Toward Converting Dollar to Central Digital Currency

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced federal consideration of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on March 20 and called for the state legislature to ban it in Florida and for other states to do the same.
DeSantis, who is expected to declare his candidacy for president, has used daily press conferences to showcase his management of the third-largest state, which he calls “the free state of Florida.”
Speaking at Gulf Coast State College, DeSantis addressed a decidedly national issue, the idea of the federal government extending its economic power by moving the nation toward a digital currency—controlled by Washington….}