Guthrie proposed the bill less than a week after HHS extended the COVID emergency through mid-April. HHS has now maintained the emergency declaration for 3 years and declared last week that there was a public fitness emergency due to the “ongoing consequences” of COVID.
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The move came more than three months after President Joe Biden said in an interview that “the pandemic is over. “on that one. “
In practice, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) extension gives the government leeway in how it manages federal fitness systems and limits the liability of doctors treating COVID patients. But politically, Republicans argue that the U. S. existed in early 2020, and Guthrie said the goal of his bill was to make sure Biden’s management listened to what Biden said in September.
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“The COVID-19 pandemic is over,” Guthrie said. Although President Biden admitted this in September, his administration just legalized the 12th extension of the COVID-19 public fitness emergency. -19 Public fitness emergency and relinquishing emergency powers you just renewed.
“President Biden’s inaction and lack of transparency on this point is unacceptable,” he added. “I proposed the End of the Pandemic Act to prevent further delays by forcing the Biden administration to, regardless, release and execute a plan that my House Republican colleagues and have continually insisted on unraveling the PHE. “
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Guthrie and other Republicans suggested to Biden’s administration about a year ago that he begin lifting existing public fitness emergencies, adding the lifting of all vaccination and mask mandates and pinpointing tactics to make certain seniors dissipate from telefitness.
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Guthrie’s bill is co-sponsored by 14 House Republicans.
Pete Kasperowicz is a politician at Fox News Digital.