Political Quotes

“I would like to share a remarkable moment from a committee hearing this week with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Mr. Becerra began his testimony by saying that we can now manage COVID like we do the flu. I asked Mr. Becerra: If that is true, then what about these 30 colleges and universities across the country that still have COVID-19 vaccine mandates? That is, they require students to get a vaccine in order to enroll, and they will expel students who do not comply with that mandate. I asked the Secretary: If it is true that we can now manage COVID like the flu, then will you call on these 30 universities that, right now in May of 2024, still have COVID vaccine mandates? The Secretary refused to do it. He is just fine with these institutions continuing to impose these exclusionary policies. Now, at this point in time, it is so beyond the pale to continue to have these mandates that I think it is important to specifically call out the universities that still have them. Of course, we now know there was never any public health justification for universities to have COVID vaccine mandates, and it certainly was not consistent with the values of our country or the values of higher education. Nevertheless, to still have them now is so beyond the pale and so utterly absurd that I think we should recognize each and every university that still has them.…”