President Joe Biden would veto a Republican-backed, Senate-passed resolution that would nullify his federal transportation mask mandate should it reach his desk, according to the White House.
The Office of Management and Budget wrote that requiring people to cover their faces while on public transportation and in transportation hubs had prevented the spread of COVID-19, "saving lives."
The Senate nevertheless voted 57-40 on Tuesday night to pass the resolution, with bipartisan support. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was the sole GOP defector. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced the measure.
“Today, the Senate said enough is enough and sent a message to unelected government bureaucrats to stop the anti-science, nanny state requirement of travel mask mandates,” Paul said in a statement following the vote.
Paul's resolution would use the Congressional Review Act to try to roll back the rule, which the Biden administration extended until April 18 after it was set to expire March 18. It would only need simple majorities to pass, avoiding a Democratic filibuster in the Senate and the resultant 60-vote threshold. A Biden veto would keep the rule in place.
“Since March 2020, unelected bureaucrats have incessantly declared that we should ‘follow the science,’" Paul said in a statement last month. "But the same bureaucrats continue to defy science by imposing an ineffective and restrictive mask mandate for individuals traveling on public transit and airplanes."
"As the entire world is learning to live with COVID, the federal government still uses fearmongering to stubbornly perpetuate its mandates rather than giving clear-eyed, rational advice on how to best protect yourself from illness,"
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The Office of Management and Budget wrote that requiring people to cover their faces while on public transportation and in transportation hubs had prevented the spread of COVID-19, "saving lives."
The Senate nevertheless voted 57-40 on Tuesday night to pass the resolution, with bipartisan support. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was the sole GOP defector. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced the measure.
“Today, the Senate said enough is enough and sent a message to unelected government bureaucrats to stop the anti-science, nanny state requirement of travel mask mandates,” Paul said in a statement following the vote.
Paul's resolution would use the Congressional Review Act to try to roll back the rule, which the Biden administration extended until April 18 after it was set to expire March 18. It would only need simple majorities to pass, avoiding a Democratic filibuster in the Senate and the resultant 60-vote threshold. A Biden veto would keep the rule in place.
“Since March 2020, unelected bureaucrats have incessantly declared that we should ‘follow the science,’" Paul said in a statement last month. "But the same bureaucrats continue to defy science by imposing an ineffective and restrictive mask mandate for individuals traveling on public transit and airplanes."
"As the entire world is learning to live with COVID, the federal government still uses fearmongering to stubbornly perpetuate its mandates rather than giving clear-eyed, rational advice on how to best protect yourself from illness,"
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Another ‘let’s go Brandon!’ moment.