The decision is likely to be reversed by the incoming Trump administration. Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state whose family fled Cuba in the 1950s, supports strong sanctions on Havana's Communist regime.

Florida Democrats quickly distanced themselves from President Joe Biden‘s decision to lift sanctions and Cuba’s status as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday. The announcement by the Biden administration was in partnership with the Catholic Church,

The Biden administration lifted Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday, four years after the Trump White House issued the designation.