{"id":52616,"date":"2021-02-15T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52616"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:48:42","slug":"biden-makes-major-move-to-undermine-floridas-covid-response-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52616","title":{"rendered":"<b>Biden Making Major Move to Undermine Florida&#8217;s Covid Response Success Story<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DeSantis, Rubio slam Biden\u2019s potential Florida travel ban as \u2018political attack\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"348\" width=\"618\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6231664618001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Lia Eustachewich<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio are slamming the Biden administration for reportedly considering a domestic travel ban on the state, calling the threat \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and a \u201cpolitical attack\u201d on Floridians.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Republican pols responded to a report by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article249154715.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Miami Herald<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday that the Biden administration was floating a domestic ban allegedly to clamp down on the new, highly contagious COVID-19 variants that are racing through the nation, including Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny attempt to restrict by the federal government would be an attack on our state done purely for political purposes,\u201d DeSantis said at a press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also said the move would be \u201cunconstitutional\u201d \u2014 which was echoed by Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo now that they\u2019re considering actual restrictions on Americans inside the country, I think it is unconstitutional,\u201d the Florida senator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rubio-biden-travel-ban-coronavirus-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on Fox News<\/a>\u00a0Thursday. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be challenged in court successfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing Thursday that \u201cno decisions have been made around additional public health measures that would change domestic travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has also been considering mandating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/27\/biden-eyeing-covid-19-test-mandate-for-domestic-flights\/\">COVID-19 tests for domestic travel<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called an \u201cappropriate measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say that CDC is looking at all its options, but, you know, there has got to be common-sense medicine, science really driving this,\u201d he said on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/us-domestic-covid-19-test-considered-air-travel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what we know is that it\u2019s the appropriate measure for international travel, people traveling into the US, given some of those considerations. You know, I\u2019d say the domestic picture is very different, but the CDC is always evaluating what can best be done to do keep Americans safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/12\/desantis-rubio-slam-bidens-potential-florida-travel-ban\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/12\/desantis-rubio-slam-bidens-potential-florida-travel-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeSantis, Rubio slam Biden\u2019s potential Florida travel ban as \u2018political attack\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}