Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Sept. 28 blocked a resolution that would aim the national emergency declaration over COVID-19.
Wyden stepped in after Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a doctor, introduced the resolution.
The one-page measure would terminate the national emergency declaration, which was initially declared by the Trump administration and has been extended through the present day by the Biden administration.
“It is this declaration, coupled with other additional emergency powers currently invoked by the president, which this administration is using to supersize government in order to continue their reckless inflationary spending spree and enact their partisan agenda,” Marshall said on the Senate floor in Washington. “In fact, the White House uses these emergencies to justify their inflationary out-of-control spending, their unconstitutional vaccine and mask mandates, and to forgive student loans.”…