by Damjan Tutarkov
LaCorte News
Florida is suing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an attempt to lift Covid-19 restrictions the agency has imposed on the cruise industry for a whole year.
DeSantis made the announcement Thursday alongside state Attorney General Ashley Moody, who said the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Biden administration are also named as defendants in the suit.
“If we do not do this, you will see cruises continue to move these cruises to other countries,” Moody said at a news briefing at PortMiami., according to the Orlando Sentinel. “Florida will not allow that to happen.”
“On behalf of the tens of thousands of Floridians whose livelihood depends on the viability of an open cruise industry, today Florida is fighting back,” DeSantis said.