WASHINGTON – Heritage Action, a grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, released a statement from Executive Director Jessica Anderson supporting the COVID measures on the House floor this week, including H.J. Res. 7, H.R. 139, H.R. 382, and H.R. 497.
“Since taking office, the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have used COVID “compliance” to further send the country into crippling debt, pass unrelated partisan priorities, and pay American workers to stay home. This week, conservatives in the House are set to pass a series of measures that will end both the national emergency and public health emergency declarations, repeal the federal vaccine mandate for health care employees, and finally send federal employees back to work.
Importantly, these measures would terminate the authorities that President Biden and his administration have repeatedly abused to advance their longstanding political priorities and solidify their control over Americans’ everyday lives. Despite claiming that the pandemic was ‘over’ in September 2022, President Biden’s administration continued to extend these emergency declarations in a blatant attempt to abuse expanded authorities to do things like waive work requirements for SNAP benefits or move forward with their student debt amnesty scheme.
The American people want to move on from COVID. They want to see the economy recover, workers return to the workplace, and oversight investigations bring accountability for the fraud and waste that has come as a result of the Left’s reckless policies. Heritage Action encourages Representatives to support this set of measures and finally put an end to the years of bureaucratic overreach and abuse from the Biden administration.”
BACKGROUND:
H.J. Res 7 was introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar and would terminates the national emergency concerning COVID-19.
H.R. 382, the Pandemic is Over Act, was introduced by Rep. Brett Guthrie and would terminate the Public Health Emergency.
H.R. 139, the SHOW UP Act of 2023, was introduced by Rep. James Comer and would reinstate pre-pandemic telework policies for executive agencies.
H.R. 497, the Freedom for Health Care Workers Act, was introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan and would roll back the federal vaccine mandate for health care workers.
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