The White House is fighting to keep a federal mask mandate for travel in place after Biden calling the pandemic 'over,' and despite calls from travel associations to end mask mandates.
PRESIDENT BIDEN DECLARES THAT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 'IS OVER' WEEKS BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it," Biden said in a CBS interview that aired in September.
"If you notice, no one's wearing a mask, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape," Biden added while he walked through the Detroit Auto Show.The fight to keep mask mandates is not a popular one among travel industry groups. The U.S. Travel Association, for example, praised the ruling from the Florida judge striking down the mandate. "The current decision to halt enforcement of the federal mask mandate effectively returns the choice of mask usage on planes and other forms of public transportation to travelers and travel industry workers, a further step toward endemic management of COVID," Tori Emerson Barnes, the associations executive vice president, said at the time.The Health Freedom Defense Fund , a medical rights advocacy group that initially sued the Biden administration in July 2021, will make the argument in court Tuesday that the order requiring all travelers to wear masks"lacks not only any rooting in federal statutes, but it also violated existing federal law in how it was promulgated. The mandate also suffers from an inconsistent application of sound science.""The Biden administration is trying to paper over an illegal, sweeping mandate on Americans that is full of massive legal and scientific holes," HFDF founder and President Leslie Manookian said in a press statement."That a federal agency should be able to just usurp the power of Congress, and violate fundamental individual rights is not only at odds with the law – it defies basic common sense."Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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