“Texas just beat Biden again,” Gov. Greg Abbott exulted on Twitter after Friday’s ruling was announced.
Texas state attorney general Ken Paxton celebrated a court victory Friday as a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to mandate COVID vaccines for workers in the state’s Head Start programs – and to force students as young as 2 years old to mask up in school.over the president’s vaccine mandate for private businesses.
/We thought that was a parental choice, not a Joe Biden choice, so we sued them,’ Paxton explained. Above, Pres. Biden speaks during a meeting last week.In Texas, that could mean a loss of up to $842 million in federal grants, Paxton alleged in a Dec. 10 filing thatOn Friday, Judge James “Wesley” Hendrix of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas agreed, ruling that HHS cannot impose such a requirement unless Congress acts to give the agency that power.
Friday’s ruling applies only to Texas — but a similar lawsuit aimed at halting the Head Start mandates nationwide, filed Dec. 21 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, has been
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