President Joe Biden won't veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an easy path to becoming law.
President Joe Biden won't veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an easy path to becoming law.President Joe Biden won't veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency
It marks the second time in the new Congress that the Biden administration has signaled opposition to a Republican measure only, only to soften its stance Republicans celebrated the turn of events Wednesday as a sign of their newfound influence in divided Washington, while Democrats quietly complained that the Biden administration had shifted its views.
But now, it's much closer to the White House's own plan to wind down COVID national emergency status on May 11. The legislation is a simple one-line measure saying that national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, "is hereby terminated." "An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors' offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans," the administration said in a formal statement of administrative policy.
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