GOP Lawmaker Pushes to End COVID Emergency After Biden Says ‘Pandemic Is Over’

GOP Lawmaker Pushes to End COVID Emergency After Biden Says ‘Pandemic Is Over’
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) speaks in Washington in a file photograph. Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) urged on Sept. 22 for the repeal of the years-long national emergency declaration following President Joe Biden’s recent remarks that the COVID-19 pandemic “is over.”

The Republican lawmaker of Kansas introduced on Thursday a privileged resolution that calls for a vote to end the undergoing emergency declaration over the global pandemic, which has been in place since being firstly announced by then-President Donald Trump in March 2020.

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