The Texas Republican authored an amendment that would cut off federal funds from schools...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Thursday shot down attempts by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to defund President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandates and strip funding from schools that require students to get vaccinated against COVID.
Cruz called vaccine mandates in schools — which have long been in place in every state, though some including Texas allow parents to opt out — an “absolute abuse of power” in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor.The Texas Republican authored an amendment that would cut off federal funds from schools that require students get vaccinated against COVID.
“These petty tyrants have no right to force parents to vaccinate children with a new and untested vaccine.” “This is unprecedented in this body — an effort by the federal government to force local school boards and state superintendents of instruction to not have a vaccine mandate at the cost of taking money away from the students and the teachers and the parents,” Kaine said. “Everyone in this body who attended school in the United States had to get vaccines to attend school.”Cruz’s amendment failed on a 44-49 vote.
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