A bipartisan group of 54 senators reintroduced the Freedom to
Travel to Cuba Act on Thursday. The bill, which would end all restrictions on
travel to Cuba, was originally introduced during the last Congress with just
eight co-sponsors.
"A bipartisan majority of the Senate agrees that the federal
government should not be telling Americans where they can or cannot travel,
especially to a tiny country just 90 miles from Florida," Sen. Patrick Leahy,
(D-Vermont), said in a prepared statement. "The restrictions in law that our bill
would strike down are a failed vestige of the Cold War."
Under current U.S. policy, Americans can visit Cuba under one of
12 categories, including people-to-people cultural exchanges, which is the
provision typically used by tour operators.
The Trump administration has not said whether it plans to
roll back some of the U.S.-Cuba openings that the Obama administration
negotiated during its final two years.