We’ve made it to 2023, nearly three years since the pandemic hit the United States in full force. The virus is less deadly, we have effective vaccines and life is pretty much back to normal for most of us.
If you’re President Joe Biden, however, the COVID-19 “emergency” is still front and center.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Biden actually believes we are still in a state of emergency. He admitted as much in September when he declared the pandemic was “over.”
Yet the president and his administration have enjoyed the extra powers that have accompanied the national emergency declaration. And they are working hard to cling to this authority, which has granted the executive branch broader control over our lives.
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While the country has been distracted with the classified documents that keep popping up in Biden’s office, garage (near his treasured Corvette) and home, the administration continues its crusade to convince the courts the country remains in a state of emergency.
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Here are two examples.
First, the Biden administration won’t give up on its plan to “forgive” hundreds of billions of dollars of federal student loan debt. Biden did this through executive action – with the national emergency over COVID-19 as the rationale. Several courts have found that Biden’s order is an unconstitutional overreach, and the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up two cases and plans to hear arguments next month.
