The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the CDC’s mask mandate on public transportation, including airplanes. The resolution, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, passed in a 57 to 40 vote. The only Republican to vote against the resolution was Sen. Mitt Romney, per Just the News. Eight Democrats voted in support of the resolution: Michael Bennet, […]
The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the CDC’s mask mandate on public transportation, including airplanes.
The resolution, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, passed in a 57 to 40 vote.
The only Republican to vote against the resolution was Sen. Mitt Romney, per Just the News.
Eight Democrats voted in support of the resolution: Michael Bennet, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez-Masto, Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly, Joe Manchin, Kristen Sinema and Jon Tester.
“Today, the Senate said enough is enough, and sent a message to unelected government bureaucrats to stop the anti-science, nanny state requirement of travel mask mandates,” Sen. Paul wrote in a press release following the vote.
“Since March 2020, unelected bureaucrats have incessantly declared that we should ‘follow the science.’ But the same bureaucrats continue to defy science by imposing ineffective and restrictive mask mandates for individuals traveling on public transportation and airplanes,” he added.
“As the entire world is learning to live with COVID, the federal government still uses fear mongering to stubbornly perpetuate its mandates, rather than giving clear-eyed rational advice on how to best protect yourself from illness,” he continued. “That is why I forced this vote, and I applaud the Senate for rejecting this nonsense.”
