SEN. MARSHALL RESOLUTION PUTS AN END TO COVID STATE OF EMERGENCY

Statement

U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. has introduced a Senate resolution to end the COVID-19 national state of emergency currently in effect under the National Emergencies Act (NEA), which allows the President to make available robust powers to deal with crises other than war or natural disaster. In March 2020, President Donald Trump invoked the NEA in regard to COVID-19 and in February 2021, President Joe Biden extended it until March 1, 2022. Under the NEA, Congress is mandated to determine whether the emergency should continue, a process Congress has not fully enforced, ceding power to the executive. Following introduction of the resolution, Senator Marshall issued this statement:

"With COVID cases and hospitalizations on the decline, 94 percent of Americans having immunity to COVID, mask mandates falling by the wayside, and 70 percent of Americans agreeing "it's time we accept that COVID is here to stay' and that "we just need to get on with our lives,' it's clear we need new approach to COVID as we learn to live with it. That new approach starts with putting an end to the COVID national state of emergency," said Senator Marshall.

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