Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took another swing at a U.S. digital dollar today even as he defended crypto as a whole, unveiling a series of state legislative proposals that would combat “woke politics.”

“They don’t like crypto because they can’t control crypto,” he said in answer to a question posed at a Tuesday press conference. “They want to get rid of crypto, which my view is, if you want to invest in crypto, it’s up to you, you can do it, you can make those decisions.”

“They,” presumably, refers to Democrats in Washington, D.C., who have—along with Republicans—made cryptocurrency a major policy issue. DeSantis suggested that his political opponents are pursuing the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which would be issued, backed, and tracked by the government.

DeSantis had previously announced a state bill to ban CBDCs, branding it as “Big Brother’s Digital Dollar.”

“The danger of the digital currency is that they want to make that the sole currency—they want to put everything in a central bank digital currency,” he said. “I think that that’s fundamentally wrong, so we’re recognizing the dangers with this agenda.”

The press conference was titled “Government of Laws, Not Woke Politics,” and was focused on a package of bills that oppose “‘Environment, Social, and Governance” or ES

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