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CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to pull federal funding from any school or other educational entity that still mandates COVID shots as a requirement for attendance.
The order also directs Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to form a compliance plan for the measure to prevent the “coercive” mandates.
“Okay, that solves that problem,” Trump said as he signed the order. He confirmed to a reporter that enforcement of the order “will go through the Department of Education.”
FOX News noted that it is “not clear how many schools will be affected by the vaccine order.”
No College Mandates, an anti-mandate group, “reported that as of December 2024, 15 of the more than 1,200 institutions it tracked had some form of coronavirus vaccine mandate,” FOX reported.
During his successful 2024 reelection campaign, Trump consistently vowed that he would not, under any circumstances, reinstate COVID restrictions such as vaccine mandates and lockdowns. In August 2023, he called proponents of such measures “left-wing lunatics.”
Earlier this week, the Senate confirmed Kennedy, whom Trump had nominated to lead the HHS Department three months earlier.
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As CatholicVote previously noted, Kennedy over the past few years has “emerged as a prominent critic of COVID shot mandates” as well as “an outspoken opponent of the controversial Dr. Anthony Fauci.” Fauci, a Chief Medical Advisor to former President Joe Biden, was widely regarded as the main public face of coronavirus restrictions.
“In 2021, Kennedy penned the New York Times bestselling book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci,’” CatholicVote reported.
