Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed as partisan a request by two Democratic U.S. senators for a federal investigation related to Florida's handling of unemployment benefits.

"Well, I've never heard of partisan politics in Washington, D.C., before. Oh, my goodness. Can you imagine that?" DeSantis, a former congressman, derisively replied when asked in Miami about the request by U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon. "Look, these guys are very partisan. That's all they're doing."

Schumer and Wyden sent a letter to Scott Dahl, inspector general at the U.S. Department of Labor, requesting an investigation into the federal agency's oversight of Florida's problems in carrying out expanded unemployment benefits under a federal-stimulus law known as the CARES Act.