Covid Crackdown: Republicans Seek To Defund Universities Still Requiring Vaccine

FIRST ON FOX: Lawmakers will put guardant a measure Monday to put nan unit of rule down President Donald Trump's executive bid prohibiting national costs from going to colleges that still instruction a coronavirus vaccine jab.

Reps. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., and August Pfluger, R-Texas, will record nan No Vaccine Mandates successful Higher Education Act, chiefly noting that erstwhile President Joe Biden ended nan charismatic nationalist emergency for COVID-19 successful April 2023.

In comments to Fox News Digital, Pfluger said nan pandemic "opened Pandora’s Box to a lengthy database of overreaching policies and mandates from nan government, institutions, and companies alike."

"As we activity to reconstruct communal consciousness and liberties backmost to nan American people, I americium proud to co-lead this authorities to guarantee universities tin nary longer unit their students to person nan COVID-19 vaccine," he said.

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President Donald Trump's executive bid prohibits national costs from going to colleges that still instruction a coronavirus vaccine shot. (Getty/Reuters)

The measure sounds that "no national costs whitethorn beryllium made disposable to immoderate institution of higher acquisition that requires its students aliases unit to person a COVID-19 vaccine arsenic a information of enrollment aliases employment, aliases receiving immoderate benefit, service, aliases contract."

In February, Trump wrote critically that immoderate institutions are "conditioning their education" based connected undergoing nan COVID jab.

"Parents and young adults should beryllium empowered pinch meticulous information regarding nan distant risks of superior unwellness associated pinch COVID-19 for children and young adults, arsenic good arsenic really those risks tin beryllium mitigated done various measures, and near free to make their ain decisions accordingly," Trump wrote successful his order.

"Given nan incredibly debased consequence of superior COVID-19 unwellness for children and young adults, threatening to unopen them retired of an acquisition is an intolerable infringement connected individual freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and load students of galore faiths."

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A February study by Best Colleges listed 15 schools nationwide, peculiarly successful California, Georgia and Pennsylvania, still had their COVID vaccine requirements intact.

During nan national coronavirus emergency, immoderate universities, including Columbia successful New York City, required not only nan COVID-19 vaccine, but nan ensuing boosters arsenic good for astatine slightest immoderate portions of their student population.

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In Columbia's case, impervious of booster doses were required for study-abroad students, according to a 2022 notice from nan Ivy League institution.

Princeton University successful New Jersey required boosters for its 2022 on-campus semester.

"Compliance pinch nan vaccine argumentation is basal to support prox entree to field accommodation and to proceed student advancement to degree," a connection from that semester read.

Weekly PCR testing for COVID-19 was besides mandatory for a clip at Cornell University successful upstate New York.