Earlier this month, Convention of States Action President Mark Meckler predicted that Joe Biden would soon begin pushing mask and vaccine mandates. Biden wouldn’t do this via laws or executive orders, Mark predicted, but through threats and bribes tied to federal funding.
Just one week later, that’s exactly what Biden has started doing.
The White House just announced that it will begin tying Medicare and Medicaid funding to vaccine mandates in nursing homes. If a nursing home does not require all of its employees to be vaccinated, they will lose access to the federal coffers:
Today, President Biden is announcing that HHS will develop new regulations requiring nursing homes to require that all of their workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
These new regulations would apply to nearly 15,000 nursing home facilities, which employ approximately 1.6 million workers and serve approximately 1.3 million nursing home residents.
In a public address Biden instructed his Department of Education to take legal action against governors who have prohibited schools from requiring masks.
There is no evidence that mask mandates work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools, but Biden is moving forward nonetheless:
“Today, I am directing the Secretary of Education — an educator himself — to take additional steps to protect our children. This includes using all of his oversight authorities and legal actions, if appropriate, against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators.”
