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Ron DeSantis, the current Governor of Florida and a potential Republican candidate for the presidency, remains steadfast in his opposition to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and has pledged to implement a ban on them if elected president.
“Done, dead, not happening in this country,” said DeSantis at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa last Friday. “If I am the president, on day one, we will nix central bank digital currency.”
DeSantis has consistently voiced his opposition to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) due to concerns over "government-sanctioned surveillance." In March, he took a decisive step by enacting a bill that effectively bans the utilization of a national CBDC as a legal tender in the state of Florida.
When it comes to the wider topic of cryptocurrency, he has displayed greater support, previously expressing the view that its utilization is a matter of individual freedom and referring to bitcoin (BTC) as a “threat to the current regime.”
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized versions of a country's fiat currency issued by the government, have emerged as a contentious issue dividing political factions in the United States. Broadly speaking, the GOP stands opposed to CBDCs, while the Democrats have largely remained silent on the matter thus far.
