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Quelle surprise: Biden renews COVID "emergency" for another 90 days
Hot Air ^ | 13 Oct, 2022 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 10/15/2022 5:44:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Never let a crisis go to waste, Rahm Emanuel once advised. Add to that this new axiom: Never let your emergency powers expire. As incompetent as Joe Biden might otherwise be, he’s proven adept at following both. The Biden administration extended the Covid-19 pandemic’s status as a public health emergency for another 90 days, preserving measures such as expanded Medicaid and higher payments to hospitals.

The decision follows comments President Biden made in September describing the pandemic as over. Some Republican lawmakers said afterward that the administration should wind down its pandemic response and the emergency designation.

SNIP

So why is the pandemic over but not the emergency? For one thing, Biden still wants emergency cash from Congress:

The White House has asked Congress for $22.4 billion in additional pandemic funding. Republican lawmakers have said the administration has untapped Covid-19 relief funds it should be using first. Republican Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington and Brett Guthrie of Kentucky said Thursday that the administration has failed to provide a detailed plan to unwind the pandemic emergency.

In other words, Biden’s extending the emergency to answer demands that Biden has no plans to unwind the emergency — even after admitting on national TV that “the pandemic is over.” Only in Washington would that make any sense at all, and even then only in an administration as addled as Biden’s.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; covid1984

1 posted on 10/15/2022 5:44:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Will Joe try to tamper with election rules?


2 posted on 10/15/2022 5:44:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Never let your emergency powers expire”

B-I-N-G-O


3 posted on 10/15/2022 5:46:53 AM PDT by cranked
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To: MtnClimber

“Covid is over”……. FJB


4 posted on 10/15/2022 5:48:08 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: MtnClimber

Jill Jill, Joe Joe went poo poo.

/random Biden


5 posted on 10/15/2022 6:08:55 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: wardamneagle

“Covid is over”……. FJB

/\

But

” Fortification of fraud “ isn’t.


6 posted on 10/15/2022 6:12:30 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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Help if you can
7 posted on 10/15/2022 6:48:55 AM PDT by deport
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To: MtnClimber
I’m genuinely surprised that this “COVID emergency” was extended.

It completely undermines all these attempts to get people back to work — especially in urban Democrat sh!t-holes.

8 posted on 10/15/2022 7:35:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: MtnClimber

Obviously he can’t let go of his cabal’s tyranny


9 posted on 10/15/2022 8:34:20 AM PDT by drypowder
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Never let a crisis go to waste, Rahm Emanuel once advised …
So did Jean Monnet, long before him.
10 posted on 10/15/2022 10:55:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MtnClimber

They need time to manufacture more of those people killing fake vaxes under an EUA while testing for side effects and efficacy on a half dozen rodents before they jam that crap into more vacant headed sheeple.


11 posted on 10/15/2022 11:00:59 AM PDT by dforest
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