DeSantis, White House Trade Barbs as Florida Covid Cases Climb
- Biden said Tuesday GOP governors should ‘get out of the way’
- Florida governor hits president on masks, border security
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a heated exchange with the White House on Wednesday amid a surge of coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths in his state that’s prompted a political clash over mask mandates and vaccine requirements.
DeSantis bristled at President Joe Biden’s declaration on Tuesday that he and other Republican governors who have sought to block schools and workplaces from requiring masks “get out of the way” as the federal government, educators and employers seek to respond to rising case levels resulting from the emergence of the more contagious delta variant.