In a rare display of political alignment, Florida's top Republicans, Democrats, environmental groups, and even some of President Donald Trump's closest allies in the state are loudly rejecting the administration’s new plan to expand offshore drilling near Florida's coast.

Governor Ron DeSantis, who has long insisted Florida's beaches and military testing zones remain off-limits, renewed his warnings this week, urging Trump to stick with the protections he signed in 2020.

"Now what the Interior Department is proposing to do is really to go back off that policy," DeSantis said Friday. "I think that would weaken protections we worked really hard to establish offshore."

The Interior Department’s proposal would open new waters for oil and gas development, aiming to boost domestic production

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