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Democrats are expected to oppose Republican-led legislation that would permanently ban mask mandates for Americans on public transposition, on airplanes, and in classrooms that are funded by taxpayer dollars.
The “Freedom to Breathe Act,” introduced by Senator JD Vance on Tuesday and co-sponsored by Sens. Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, and Mike Braun, seeks to bar federal bureaucrats, including the recently masked President Joe Biden, from forcing Americans to cover their faces in coming months. Before December 2024, the bill states that no cash collected from hardworking Americans by the government may be used to create or enforce forced masking.
“We tried mask mandates once in this country. They failed to control the spread of respiratory viruses, violated basic bodily freedom, and set our fellow citizens against one another,” Vance said in a statement. “This legislation will ensure that no federal bureaucracy, no commercial airline, and no public school can impose the misguided policies of the past. Democrats say they’re not going to bring back mask mandates – we’re going to hold them to their word.”
The bill is a response to the renewed push by schools, universities, businesses, hospitals, and health officials in major cities to usher in another round of Covid tyranny across the U.S. as virus cases spike.
There is overwhelming evidence that masks don’t work to stop the spread of Covid. Even the CDC admits that the cloth face coverings many Americans used to buy
