Joe Biden's Defense for Extending the Covid 'Emergency' is Outrageous — Now Congress is Acting to Shut It Down Despite Him
The House has declared an end to the Covid emergency. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is moving to put an end to the Covid insanity for good.
President Joe Biden, in one fell swoop, made one of his most revealing statements on the Covid 'emergency' yet. He simultaneously damned the Supreme Court for its shameful inaction by allowing the unlawful Covid mandates to stand.
In a statement to the press, Biden was asked when the Covid 'emergency' will end.
"What's behind the decision to end the Covid emergency?" NBC reporter Kristin Welker yelled at the president off-camera.
"The Covid emergency will end when the Supreme Court ends it," Biden responded. "We've extended it to May the 15th to make sure we get everything done. That's all.”
Biden's statement confused political observers on Twitter and mobilized some to push back against the White House's arbitrary timeline.
Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) tweeted, "Biden to reporters: ‘The Covid Emergency will end when the Supreme Court ends it.’ Not if Congress ends it first. It's way beyond time to rein in out-of-control executive authority. #EndTheEmergencyNOW."
Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman tweeted, "Reasonable to infer a slip/admission against interest regarding the fact that the public health emergency exists to justify policy prescriptions that otherwise have no legal justification."
Talk show host Dave Rubin jabbed the president with a sarcastic remark.
"’The Covid emergency will end when the Supreme Court ends it.’ Sure sounds like science to me," he tweeted.
Republican rapid response director Tommy Pigott compared Biden to Emperor Palpatine of the Star Wars films.
"Real Palpatine vibes from Joe Biden here," he snarked.
But there were other remarks coming from judicial watchers from varying legal perspectives that undercut Biden's claim.
Lawyer Tom Spencer called Biden’s statement was a "Complete and utterly outrageous Lie." Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett decried the notion that the Supreme Court decides when a pandemic's emergency status is over."What? Now that would be true judicial supremacy."
President Joe Biden had stated in an interview in September that Covid is "over." But after the White House did damage control for the president's statement, it turned out that time would come much later. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the White House will let the "emergency" expire in mid-May.
This development comes as the Biden administration in January continued its Covid 'emergency' until at least April via the TSA requirement that all non-citizen travelers to the United States be "fully vaccinated" for the virus. The U.S. Senate is now considering a package of bills that would put an end to virtually all of Biden's Covid mandates.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is now deliberating on a package of bills to end the Covid response policies, which in many cases violated Americans' constitutional rights.
The end to the Covid mandates would encompass seven different bills, which are summarized by Sen. Ted Cruz's office below.
Among its many provisions, the No Vaccine Passports Act would stop the federal government from establishing COVID-19 passports or working with third parties to establish their own vaccine passports, such as airlines or other global entities. This bill imposes a five-year prohibition on any government vaccine mandate for vaccines first authorized by the FDA through an Emergency Use Authorization….
The GIVE LIFE Act (Doss’s Bill) is named after a teenage Texan who was denied a kidney transplant because he had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Even after the pandemic has subsided, patients across the county continue to deny access to life saving transplants due to the patient’s COVID-19 vaccine status. The GIVE LIFE Act would prohibit denying an individual from donating and organ or receiving an organ transplant because of their COVID-19 vaccination status…
Ending Discrimination in COVID-19 Treatments Act:
The Ending Discrimination in COVID-19 Treatments Act would mandate the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to require that providers do not engage in discriminatory practices such as considering someone’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, vaccination status, veteran status, political ideology, or speech when allocating COVID-19 treatments.
The No Vaccine Mandates Act protects the rights of parents by requiring persons who administer a COVID-19 vaccine or booster to first obtain the patient’s informed consent and it protects the rights of parents by requiring the consent of a parent or guardian if the patient is a minor child. The bill also imposes civil penalties for violating a patient’s right by vaccinating against COVID-19 without consent.
Parental Rights Protection Act:
The Parental Rights Protection Act would protect the rights of parents by restricting recipients of federal funds, including from the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services, from imposing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting minor children. Further, this bill would prohibit vaccinating a minor child without the informed, written consent of a parent or guardian.
The No Mask Mandates Act would prohibit future mask mandates on public property or public transportation. The bill also ensures that no taxpayer funds are used to enforce any federal mask mandate in response to COVID-19. Despite President Biden’s own statements declaring the COVID-19 pandemic over, his administration continues to fight in court for the authority to impose mask mandates on the American people.
The bill would protect students in Washington, D.C. public schools from the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The D.C. school vaccine mandate would prohibit unvaccinated schoolkids from 12 to 15 years of age from attending school in person. The mandate is discriminatory, as it is particularly harmful to black students who are vaccinated at a lower rate than other students. This bill is co-sponsored by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mike Lee (R-UT), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Braun (R-IN), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Rick Scott (R-FL).
“President Biden has stated that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, but he continues to wield powers granted during the pandemic, and he continues to desire draconian restrictions and mandates for the American people," Cruz remarked. "Congress must step up and outright ban these mandates. We cannot allow the unprecedented actions taken by the federal government to set a new normal in which politicians and unelected bureaucrats force mandates upon the American people at the drop of a hat - all under the justification of protecting public health. My bills would ensure that the constitutional rights of Americans are protected and that President Biden cannot change his mind as the political winds blow.”
These Senate bills are critical, even if these acts don’t pass the Senate. There was a false alarm in November when 12 Democrats purportedly voted to end the Covid ‘emergency’ — this opposition crumbled after Biden threatened a veto.
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end the Covid emergency.
It’s a start, but as far as a reckoning goes, it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
That would be a great starting point but it’s one big global coup! https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/laundering-with-immunity-the-control-framework-part-1/
The Senate Demoncrats won't allow it to pass.