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Two governors often emblematic of the divide between red and blue states are now on the same side of an issue: legally restricting smartphones in schools.

The Details: In 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a first-in-the-nation law banning smartphone use by students during class time and curtailing the use of the social media app TikTok on school grounds. On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told Politico (Lean Left bias): “Building on legislation I signed in 2019, I look forward to working with the Legislature to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day. When children and teens are in school, they should be focused on their studies — not their screens.” In 2019, Newsom signed a law encouraging, but not requiring, schools to limit students’ smartphone use during school hours. 

For Context: Newsom and DeSantis have publicly feuded over their governing styles. However, bipartisan awareness has grown of the impact of smartphones and social media on teens’ mental health. In 2023, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared a public health epidemic of loneliness; on Monday, he called on Congress to require social media apps to include warning labels, similar to those on tobacco products. 

How the Media Covered It: A handful of outlets across the spectrum highlighted the apparent agreement between the two governors. However, some on the political right framed DeSantis as winning an “argument” and said Newsom was “copying Florida.” Despite its conservative alignment, the Washington Examiner (Lean Right bias) undercut this narrative, pointing out that California’s previous law “came four years before Florida’s.”

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Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis have spent years hurling political and policy grenades from their blue and red state capitols — the personification of a nation riven by partisan warring.

But the California Democrat and the Florida Republican now find themselves converging on an issue that’s gained a surprising amount of bipartisan support: outright banning, or severely curtailing, children from using smartphones at schools.

That doesn’t mean the popular policy will erase the long-running grudge match.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to restrict the use of smartphones in the state’s public schools, according to an article from Politico that was published Tuesday. 

The announcement, made exclusively to Politico, comes a day after Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy argued in a New York Times op-ed that social media platforms are damaging enough to the mental health of adolescents that Congress should require the platforms to come with a warning label, similar to the ones you find on tobacco products. 

Florida’s Republican governor and California’s Democratic governor rarely find common ground, but they may have found their bipartisan commonplace: social media restrictions for children.

Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA) have agreed in recent weeks that social media poses some inherent harm to children and should be restricted. The agreement likely won’t push away the pair’s feud, but it “underscores the scope of this problem,” according to California Republican Assemblyman Josh Hoover.