Headline Roundup • April 11th, 2023
Biden Signs Bill Ending COVID-19 National Emergency
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Joe Biden signed a bill Monday ending the COVID-19 national emergency.
What it Means: Programs that will be reduced immediately include mortgage forbearance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and relaxed Department of Veteran Affairs requirements for home visits and treatment. The Biden administration previously extended the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency until May 11. House Republicans rejected that, and introduced legislation to end both immediately.
Key Quotes: "The pandemic is over and has been," said Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who sponsored the bill. "This repeal is a great step forward towards economic and social recovery." CNN (Lean Left bias) quoted an anonymous White House official who said ending the emergency "does not impact our ability to wind down authorities in an orderly way."
For Context: Former President Donald Trump signed the national emergency bill on March 13, 2020. The bill to end it passed through Congress with moderate bipartisan support. The public health emergency is still set to expire May 11; that's expected to impact federal programs like Medicaid and Title 42.
How the Media Covered It: Sources across the spectrum covered the news. Some left-rated sources focused more on the White House framing the bill as insignificant, and how winding down federal pandemic programs will affect certain communities. Washington Examiner (Lean Right) mentioned speculation about COVID-19's origins, saying the "most popular theory is that it originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China."
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Patrick Semansky/AP
President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday to end the national emergency for Covid-19, the White House said, in a move that will not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11.
A White House official downplayed the impact of the bill, saying the termination of the emergency “does not impact our ability to wind down authorities in an orderly way.”
The bill to end the national emergency cleared the Senate last month in a bipartisan 68-23 vote and passed the House earlier this year with 11 Democrats crossing...
Antranik Tavitan/The Republic
President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law legislation from Rep. Paul Gosar officially ending the COVID-19 emergency declaration.
The move effectively terminates the emergency powers granted to the president under the National Emergencies Act. President Donald Trump initially declared the national emergency March 13, 2020.
"With the president signing my bill, the emergency powers enacted to address the COVID-19 emergency have been terminated," Gosar, R-Ariz., said in a written statement to The Arizona Republic. "It is my view, shared by Congress, and now the president, that emergencies should be in...
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
President Joe Biden signed a bill on Monday that officially ended the COVID-19 national emergency a month earlier than planned and roughly three years after the start of the pandemic.
The Biden administration previously announced plans to extend both the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency until May 11. But House Republicans rejected the extension and introduced legislation to end both immediately. The bill to end the national emergency was passed by the Senate at the end of March, with nearly two dozen Democrats supporting the legislation.
“House Republicans are keeping our Commitment to America,” House Speaker Kevin...
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