Fri Mar 17, 2023 – 4:00 pm EDTFri Mar 17, 2023 – 4:18 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday forged an alliance with 18 other governors to combat the woke Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda that, the governors argue, “threatens the vitality of the American economy and Americans’ economic freedom.”
DeSantis and the 18 other governors made the declaration in a March 16 policy statement.
“We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology,” they declared, according to a press release put out by DeSantis’ office.
The alliance came in response to U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to veto a joint measure put forward by Congress that would roll back a Biden-prompted Department of Labor rule authorizing the consideration of ESG factors by retirement plans making investment decisions.
The other states joining DeSantis in the public statement are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee,
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