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Washington — President Trump signed an enforcement bid Friday that prohibits schools and colleges with COVID-19 vaccine mandates from receiving national money, though nary states presently person specified a requirement.
The directive lone applies to the COVID-19 vaccine. All states necessitate students to person immoderate different vaccinations, successful bid to forestall diseases similar measles, mumps, polio, tetanus and whooping cough, with immoderate exemptions.
In a information sheet, the White House said COVID-19 vaccine mandates are "threatening acquisition opportunities."
The bid directs the Education Department and the Health and Human Services Department to travel up with a program to extremity "coercive" COVID-19 vaccine mandates and study backmost connected schoolhouse compliance. Mr. Trump's directive besides applies to acquisition work agencies, authorities acquisition agencies and section acquisition agencies.
During the 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump pledged that helium "would not springiness 1 penny to immoderate schoolhouse that has a vaccine mandate oregon a disguise mandate."
Mr. Trump selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a salient vaccine skeptic, to pb the Health and Human Services Department. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate this week, contempt concerns astir his views connected vaccinations.
Caitlin Yilek is simply a authorities newsman astatine CBSNews.com, based successful Washington, D.C. She antecedently worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a subordinate of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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