WASHINGTON — Less than an hour before President Joe Biden announced an ambitious plan to require many businesses to ensure full vaccination or require weekly COVID-19 testing of employees, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis had already vowed to fight it.
“I can say the one thing that I’m concerned about is them trying to force mandates on individuals and businesses,” said DeSantis on Thursday afternoon in response to questions during a press conference in Pasco County.
“I just think that that’s fundamentally wrong, and I think that the more and more this has become coercive, where people have threatened mandates and firing and business consequences ... the more people it alienates,” he added.
