Senator Blunt is Blunt with Biden About COVID-19

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri delivered opening remarks at the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies budget hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. In his remarks, Blunt pressed Becerra on the Biden administration’s continued efforts to impose COVID-19-related mandates while lifting the Title 42 public health emergency order at the southern border.

Blunt brought to attention that when the Biden administration first entered the white house they promised to control COVID by following the science. Unfortunately, says Blunt, “I have some concerns that the administration has really abandoned the approach of following the science.”

Blunt went on to note that, “When it became clear over the last year-and-a-half that federal vaccine mandates, school closure guidance, mask requirements on public transportation, have, I think, overreached the moment and overreached the science.”

Blunt states that it would appear the administration wants to continue down the current path of COVID mandates in the name of public safety and yet sees no issue with lifting Title 42. ” You know, COVID can’t be a challenge one place and not a problem, in my view, at another place” said Blunt. The senator goes on to note that, “Congress has been provided few details on the impact of the decision of what would happen if Title 42 goes away at the border. No plans yet to see what we do with an influx of illegal individuals into the country.”

You can watch the senator’s full remarks here.