Florida has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to force the reopening of Florida’s cruise industry, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced at a news conference in Miami.
The suit was filed Thursday morning just before the news conference, Attorney General Ashley Moody said.
Moody said the suit challenges the federal government’s authority to prevent cruise lines from sailing from Florida ports. She said the administration has been unwilling to discuss how vaccinations and health protocols introduced by the cruise lines have made the CDC’s ban on cruising outdated.
DeSantis said that tens of thousands of Florida workers who depend on the cruise lines have been unfairly harmed by the ban, which has been in effect since March 2020.
“I don’t think the federal government has the right to mothball an industry for more than a year based on very little evidence and very little data,” he said.
