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Promises made. Promises kept. If Americans have heard it once, they’ve heard it MANY times since President Trump returned to the White House, and it NEVER gets old.
The mantra will be repeated around the country once again on Friday when the 47th president signs an executive order that will undoubtedly prompt federally funded schools and universities to drop their coronavirus vaccine mandates.
Breitbart News reported that the order will halt funding to schools requiring students to take the vaccine to attend in-person classes. According to a White House document received by the outlet, the order will also apply to education service agencies, state education agencies, and local education agencies.
The executive order will prohibit “federal funds from being used to support or subsidize an educational service agency, state education agency, local education agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend in-person education programs,” the document reads.
Additionally, the order directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Secretary of Education to set guidelines and coordinate an effort to end “coercive COVID-19 vaccine mandates.”
They will identify and write a report listing “non-compliant entities,” and develop a system to halt funding for “educational entities” that fail to end the mandates.
As the coronavirus swept the globe in 2020, President Trump made clear that not everyone would want to take the vaccine.
Once Biden took over, he mandated the vaccine for certain federal agencies, and the military, and encouraged private entities to do the same.
On the campaign trail, President Trump said he would end COVID mandates in schools and vowed to “not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate.”
Trump has already acted at the federal level to end COVID-19 vaccine mandates. He reinstated servicemembers dismissed from the military for refusing to take the vaccine and ended vaccine requirements for green card “adjustment of status” applicants.
Promises made. Promises kept.