President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of the COVID-19-era mandates by removing federal funding from all schools and universities that continue to require COVID vaccinations.
“Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID-19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and burden students of many faiths,” said President Trump in his order.
The order directs the Secretary of Education, along with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to create a plan to be presented to the President within 90 days that will include a full list of all grants and federal funding given to local or state educational authorities, individual schools, and any institutes of higher learning that continue to require COVID vaccinations for students.
The plan will include a list of discretionary federal grants and contracts issued to schools with COVID vaccine mandates, along with each relevant department’s rules for cutting off those funds.
Currently, no states require COVID vaccines as a prerequisite for public school attendance, though some colleges maintain their requirements. However, Maine was ground zero for pandemic-inspired mandates emanating from taxpayer-funded universities and and community colleges.
As of Friday, one day before Trump’s order, multiple colleges nationwide still required their on-campus and residential students to be vaccinated to some extent against COVID-19, with some schools even requiring booster shots.
Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, was the only New England school to apparently require the shot for students currently in attendance, as of their 2024-2025 health form.
A representative from the Franklin Pearce University contacted The Maine Wire after the publication of this story to assert that the university does not currently have a vaccine requirement, and that the form was inadvertently left on the site and has since been removed, although the representative did not explain why the form was marked for 2025 if it was not current.
Meanwhile, former Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Director Nirav Shah has stepped down from his position with the federal CDC and is headed back to Maine, he told Maine Public on Tuesday. Throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shah was the face of the state’s response, which included some of the strictest lockdown policies in the nation.
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Shah says his decision to step down was made voluntarily, but it is unlikely his views and policies align with those of recently-confirmed Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who was sharply critical of the government’s response to COVID-19.
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Shah, “YOU CAN’T FIRE ME. I QUIT!” What a turd.
Shah failed upward as most useless bureaucratic hacks do. It very unfortunate he’s returning to Maine since Mills will likely appoint him to some overpaid and unqualified position as he was previously.
Anyone who has done even a minimal amount of research acknowledges that the Covid “vaccines” are poison. Good manufacturing practices were never employed and it was basically Russian roulette if these jabs caused injury or death.
If you did take the “clot shot” you can check how dangerous your batch was if you have your “vaccine” card with the lot numbers at: https://howbadismybatch.com
The same weasels are planning another scamdemic. My advice would be NOT TO COMPLY with shots, masks, lockdowns, etc. but make YOUR own informed decision.
Is headed back to Maine, to hide under auntie janets skirt.
I hope these —tards are brought to trial. Covid-19 machinations killed millions and changed the world for the worse.
This is fantastic but Trump needs this to also be done permanently via congress while we have the majority
Still seeing minions of the follow the nonsense science wearing masks alone in cars fearing but really not cause is it really worth it to go to TJ max to buy a candle if you believe and fear a nonexistent disease?
The assurances of this little weasel were the reason I caved in and got the shot in the first place.Now, after educating myself further, I feel like a foll for believing him and am kicking myself in the ass.Fool me once..