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President Biden was forced to clarify his response to a question Thursday after he appears to have mixed up the approaching termination of Title 42 with a judge’s decision this week to toss out the CDC’s travel mask mandate.
The Biden administration has announced its plan to terminate Title 42 on May 23, a public health order that has been used since March 2020 to quickly expel a majority of migrants at the border due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to pushback from within his own Democratic Party the White House has reportedly discussed moving back the end of Title 42.
At the conclusion of Biden’s remarks Thursday on additional aid to Ukraine, a reporter asked the president, “Are you considering delaying Title 42?”
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Biden responded, “No, what I’m considering is continuing to hear from my, my — first of all, there’s going to be an appeal by the Justice Department because as a matter of principle, we want to be able to be in a position where if in fact it is strongly concluded by the scientists that we need Title 42, that we be able to do that. But there has been no decision on extending Title 42.”
President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the Daniel Technology Center of Germanna Community College – Culpeper Campus, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Culpeper, Va.
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His response resulted in confusion because a spokesperson for the Department of Justice (DOJ) said that the department filed a notice of appeal of a ruling issued by a Florida judge on Monday which tossed out the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation passengers.
There had been no previous mention that DOJ was involved with Title 42’s approaching rescission.
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“I want to clarify that, in comments at the conclusion of my remarks this morning, I was referring…
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