COVID-19 emergency resolution blocked by Democrats

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An emergency declaration over COVID-19 was blocked by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Sept. 28.

After Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a physician, introduced the resolution, Wyden stepped in to take its place.

Biden's administration has extended the national emergency declaration through the present day, as originally declared by the Trump administration.

“It is this declaration, coupled with other additional emergency powers currently invoked by the president, which this administration is using to supersize government in order to continue their reckless inflationary spending spree and enact their partisan agenda,

Marshall said on the Senate floor in Washington. “In fact, the White House uses these emergencies to justify their inflationary out-of-control spending, their unconstitutional vaccine and mask mandates, and to forgive student loans.”

As a result of the declaration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now require data reporting, and Medicare and Medicaid no longer have to comply with certain requirements. It was cited by the Biden administration when officials announced in August that they would cancel thousands of dollars in student debt for millions of Americans.

The senator said that President Joe Biden, a Democrat, recently described the COVID-19 pandemic as "over," which means that the emergency should be over.

29 September 2022