{"id":1282640,"date":"2022-02-08T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282640"},"modified":"2022-02-08T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:23:07","slug":"democrat-rep-credits-bidens-leadership-for-vanishing-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-rep-credits-bidens-leadership-for-vanishing-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. Credits \u2018Biden\u2019s Leadership\u2019 For Vanishing Mask Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-rep-credits-bidens-leadership-for-vanishing-mask-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282640&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1368248271-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) credited President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership for the rapidly-growing number of states and municipalities that have either set dates to roll back their mask mandates or have already removed them.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries said Tuesday that it was the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to put in place a \u201cpublic health infrastructure\u201d that had been instrumental in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/winter-of-death-yeah-no-everything-biden-has-said-about-omicron-is-wrong\/\">crushing the virus<\/a>\u201d to the degree that many were beginning to see the list at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJeffries<\/a> credits Biden for states dropping mask mandates: &#8220;That\u2019s because under President Biden&#8217;s leadership, a public health infrastructure was put into place \u2026 to ensure that we can do everything possible to crush the virus, and that is what has been happening\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FDjJrjA7aB\">pic.twitter.com\/FDjJrjA7aB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1491085176012787712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A reporter asked Jeffries to weigh in on the states that had announced an end \u2014 or an end date \u2014 to indoor mask mandates. He mentioned California, where the mandates will only remain in place for the unvaccinated, along with Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware \u2014 and he asked Jeffries to respond to criticisms that Democrats were in a hurry to put the pandemic behind them as the 2022 midterm elections approached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s where we are in America,\u201d Jeffries began. \u201cJob creation is up, wages are up, unemployment is down, and the Omicron variant is in retreat \u2014 and that\u2019s not by accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s because under President Biden\u2019s leadership, a public health infrastructure was put into place, beginning with the American Rescue Plan \u2014 without a single Republican vote \u2014 to ensure that we can do everything possible to crush the virus, and that is what has been happening,\u201d Jeffries continued, adding, \u201cThrough the trials and tribulations of a once in a century pandemic, through the Delta variant, now through the Omicron variant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries went on to tout Biden\u2019s record on vaccines, noting that when Biden took office only two million Americans were vaccinated but not mentioning the fact that the vaccines had only just been made available and access to them was still restricted to health care workers and high risk individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA year later, more than two hundred million Americans are fully vaccinated,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t happen by accident. Because President Biden and Democrats in the House and the Senate have leaned in to the science, to the evidence, to standing up a robust public infrastructure, and now we are seeing the fruits of that work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several days earlier, CNN medical expert and former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen gave a slightly different reason for rolling back mandates \u2014 namely that giving the people some of their freedom back would help ensure their compliance if medical authorities needed to implement more restrictive measures later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the coming days, we will see many Governors and local leaders lift mask mandates. This is the right step, and marks a needed shift from government-imposed requirement to individual decision. It helps to preserve public health authority for when it\u2019s needed again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wolfblitzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wolfblitzer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66zwIw6vgH\">pic.twitter.com\/66zwIw6vgH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrLeanaWen\/status\/1490683302004547587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-medical-expert-says-its-time-to-lift-the-mask-mandates-to-preserve-medical-authority\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe government can\u2019t keep telling our citizens that this is a five-alarm fire all the time,\u201d she continued, suggesting that the move was at least as much about human behavior as it was about available data. \u201cPeople are just going to start tuning it out and not pay attention, they\u2019ll be desensitized.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd so what needs to happen is we need to end the state of emergency and preserve the ability of public health authorities to reinstitute mandates in the future if we more and more dangerous variants later,\u201d she concluded, effectively arguing that public health authorities would have no power to implement future mandates if they pushed the people too far.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) credited President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership for the rapidly-growing number of states and municipalities that have either set dates to roll back their mask mandates or have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}