DeSantis wants to ban federal digital currency, despite debunking of concerns

TALLAHASSEE — Echoing recent claims by Alex Jones and other right-wing personalities that the federal government wants to create a Communist-style surveillance system to track the spending habits of Americans, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said he wants to ban such activities in Florida. At a news conference in Panama City, DeSantis said he’d heard such a plan was in the works within the Biden administration. He called on the Legislature to pass a law forbidding the use of Centralized Banking Digital Currency, or CBDC, in Florida, which he called a backdoor attempt at pushing “woke ideology.” “I...