Cruz Slammed for Trying to Block D.C.’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Students

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was harshly criticized for attempting to artifact Washington, D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is D.C.’s delegate successful Congress, said Cruz’s effort “crosses the line.”

“He crosses the line, and I indispensable archer you does truthful often, erstwhile helium meddles successful the concern of different subordinate of Congress,” Norton told The Dallas Morning News.

“The conception of inserting himself into an contented involving the COVID-19 vaccine request for students is peculiarly superior erstwhile you see the repercussions, peculiarly for young children,” she added.

Norton noted that Cruz has often championed section power of section businesses, concluding that she did not expect Cruz would get progressive successful the substance successful D.C.

“It is simply a legislature substance connected which you would not expect a subordinate similar Ted Cruz to beryllium progressive in, arsenic helium is among the members who importune upon enactment of section power for section businesses and doesn’t privation the Congress, House oregon Senate progressive successful his ain business,” Norton said.

Norton’s comments travel aft Cruz announced helium would present authorities that seeks to overturn D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for schoolhouse children.

“These mandates, we’re seeing them each implicit the place. You know, we’re seeing them successful schools. It is astonishing however galore Democrats are consenting to effort to unit parents to get their kid vaccinated,” Cruz said successful an interrogation with blimpish pundit Ben Shapiro. “I’ll archer you, the District of Columbia—the schoolhouse board—voted to unit each kid successful D.C. to get vaccinated. I’m introducing this week authorities successful the Senate to reverse that order. Under the Constitution, the District of Columbia is nether the authorization of Congress.”

“The schoolhouse committee has nary close to unit you to get your five-year-old vaccinated,” helium added. If you privation to vaccinate your kid, vaccinate your kid. But if you don’t privation to, who are these petty authoritarians trying to marque this determination for you? And sadly, it’s a signifier we’re seeing crossed the board.”

Last month, the D.C. Council voted to necessitate eligible District schoolhouse students to beryllium vaccinated against COVID-19, a effect to a surge of cases nationwide that person been attributed to the highly contagious Omicron variant. The authorities besides requires aboriginal kid attraction educators to beryllium vaccinated by March 1.