Tue Apr 11, 2023 – 5:14 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday evening ending the COVID-19 “national emergency” just over three years since it was enacted.
Former president Donald Trump declared the national emergency in March 2020 to authorize a massive $50 billion in funding for COVID-related measures such as test centers.
A White House email stated that Biden signed into law H.J. Res. 7, “which terminates the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the New York Post reported, about seven months after the president admitted to 60 Minutes that the COVID-19 “pandemic” was “over.”
Despite this admission, the White House reacted at the time by saying that the Biden administration would not change its COVID policy.
The legislation, proposed by Republican U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona had passed the House 229-197 in February, and the Senate 68-23 last month.
According to the Justice Department, the emergency’s end will abolish the Title 42 migration policy that provided for the swift deportation of illegal immigrants on “public health grounds,” Politico noted. However, the full repercussions of the move remain unclear.
In November, Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul penned a
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