The national pandemic health emergency is expiring. But the governor is still highlighting his Covid record.
DeSantis defended his handling of Covid and praised Florida’s legislation that makes the bans on pandemic-related mandates indefinite. He repeated his stance when asked about it by a POLITICO reporter on Friday, saying that the Biden administration tried to deny people the right to work based on “whether or not they got an mRNA shot.”
Other Florida Republicans, when asked about DeSantis’ continuing Covid efforts and the pandemic-related legislation they passed, also blamed the president. “Why did we do it? Joe Biden — you never know what he’s going to do next,” said state Rep. Randy Fine, who is head of the Florida House Committee on Health & Human Services. “The fact that we’re getting rid of the national emergency years after it should have ended, that tells you can’t trust Joe Biden.”
But DeSantis critics maintain that, given the current state of the pandemic, all DeSantis Covid moves are unnecessary. “It’s all messaging and theater,” said state Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Miami Democrat. “And we’ll continue fighting back against it.”
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