{"id":1794043,"date":"2023-01-03T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794043"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:05:05","slug":"report-kamala-demands-covid-tests-for-senate-swearing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kamala-demands-covid-tests-for-senate-swearing-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kamala Demands COVID Tests for Senate Swearing-In"},"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\">16<\/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%2Freport-kamala-demands-covid-tests-for-senate-swearing-in%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=1794043&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--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris is ordering all senators and their guests to receive negative COVID tests if they want to take pictures with her after she administers the oath of office, Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/01\/exclusive-kamala-harris-requiring-covid-tests-for-anyone-over-two-years-old-to-participate-in-senate-swearing-in-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone over two years of age who will interact with the vice president&#8221; must receive a negative test &#8220;24 hours prior to interaction,&#8221; a directive from Harris&#8217;s office announced to anyone attending the swearing-in ceremony, which takes place on Tuesday. &#8220;This policy applies regardless of vaccination status.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s decision to mandate testing comes as Americans have become less concerned about COVID-19. Harris herself hosted a Christmas party at her Washington, D.C., residence that included celebrities and New Jersey governor Phil Murphy (D.).<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who as vice president officially presides over the Senate, may have trouble persuading senators to pose with her for the camera. The veep is so unpopular that the Democratic National Committee last year slashed the price of a photo with her by two-thirds, the Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/report-kamala-harris-is-so-unpopular-that-democrats-dont-want-a-photo-with-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0at the time. A poll last month <a href=\"https:\/\/redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com\/joe-biden-administration-approval-ratings-and-hypothetical-voting-intention-5-december-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a>\u00a0that just 38 percent of Americans approve of Harris&#8217;s job performance.<\/p>\n<p>The photo ceremony occurs after Harris has officially sworn in senators on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>Some senators are &#8220;so upset they might not participate in the photo ceremony,&#8221; sources told Breitbart. One individual said that &#8220;senators&#8217; children and grandchildren&#8221; should &#8220;not be subjected to this insanity so Kamala can pretend to care about fighting coronavirus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden in September <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1584984271252467713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;the pandemic is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris is ordering all senators and their guests to receive negative COVID tests if they want to take pictures with her after she administers the oath of office, Breitbart reported Sunday.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Kamala Demands COVID Tests for Senate Swearing-In appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":310184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4092,4127,4201,4018,3819,3740,13087,12298],"class_list":["post-1794043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-beacon","tag-covid","tag-demands","tag-kamala","tag-report","tag-senate","tag-swearing-in","tag-tests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794043","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}