Posted on 08/19/2021 7:13:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a speech Wednesday, Biden also said nursing homes must require their staff members to be vaccinated or they will lose federal funds.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he was directing the Education Department to use its legal authority against Republican governors who are trying to block local school officials from requiring students to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Speaking at the White House, Biden said some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures into "political disputes for their own political gain" and warned that they are "setting a dangerous tone."
Biden said he had directed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to wield his oversight authority and take legal action "if appropriate."
"We're not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children," Biden said.
Republican governors across the country have recently signed executive orders or enacted laws seeking to prevent local officials from imposing new mask mandates. As children head back to school amid a surge in the delta variant of the coronavirus, some local officials have decided that ignoring the measures is the only way to protect children, especially those under age 12, who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated.
Biden said emergency Covid funding in the American Rescue Plan could cover educators' salaries if their pay is cut for requiring masks in their classrooms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all students in kindergarten through 12th grade wear masks when they return to classrooms for the new school year.
Biden also said Wednesday that all nursing homes will have to require staff members to be vaccinated to keep receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding, which will affect about 15,000 nursing homes and more than 1.3 million employees, an administration official said.
About 60 percent of nursing home staffers are already fully vaccinated, according to data from the CDC.
Him and what army?
I guess the teachers unions gave Biden an ultimatum.
Well, GOP governors, you’ve seen how tough Biden is.
Gen. Milli Vanilli will get right on it!
All part of the plan to ensure mail in voting again
THEY provoke us daily and the Rs in DeeCee do nothing.
Mail in voting is here to stay.
“take on GOP governors blocking masks in schools”
They’re not blocking masks; they’re blocking mandates.
What’s the difference between a mandate and a dictate, or a mandator and a dictator? Semantics?
The one that abandoned Bagram air base in the dead of night.
Misdirection.
Now enforce it.
Tell it to the Taliban.
Will Biden send in the F-15’s and nukes? Just tell him the governor is Taliban, and then he will just ask politely instead of going full CornPop.
The world is on fire because of this jackwagon’s tactics and he’s focusing on putting submission muzzles on children.
He is depraved.
Biden is:
The Masked Avenger.
Or, should that be Revenger?
Headline is one of the worst fake news headlines I’ve ever read. These governors are not blocking masks. Any student who wants to wear a mask (or any parent who asks/requires their child to) in school may do so in all of these states.
I’m mask choice, not anti-mask. It’s a much better sell. But I fear (I’m in CA and this is how these things go) that the masking is like peanut butter and birthday cupcakes: both are banned in schools often because someone has an allergy.
The tactic being used now is “my child is immunocompromised in class and especially susceptible to covid and therefore the entire school needs to be 100% masked until he graduates.” This tactic is working. And might spread nationwide if Biden gets his way, as it works in CA. And there is no end date for masking. American children muzzled for 12+ years.
For me (I have teens in school) this is more pressing and urgent than Afghanistan, although my heart breaks for the Americans trapped there (my daughter knows a missionary there who was told to shelter in place).
Mask mandates will not end unless we fight for them to end. They won’t just go away. And Biden is fighting any state trying to allow parental choice. He’s a monster!
We now have Harris heading to Vietnam, of all places, where her hypocritical civil rights bleating will meet some hard questions about regional security that she won't be able to answer because she doesn't know a damn thing about the topic. God, this is humiliating.
A local school requires students to wear a mask and a face shield, but the staff wears neither.
The demoted POTUS, who has been designated as the COVID CZAR, working out of his basement is now threatening elected governors of this country.
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