Earlier this month, Convention of States Action President Mark Meckler predicted that Joe Biden would soon begin pushing mask and vaccine mandates. Biden wouldn't do this via laws or executive orders, Mark predicted, but through threats and bribes tied to federal funding.
Just one week later, that's exactly what Biden has started doing.
The White House just announced that it will begin tying Medicare and Medicaid funding to vaccine mandates in nursing homes. If a nursing home does not require all of its employees to be vaccinated, they will lose access to the federal coffers:
Today, President Biden is announcing that HHS will develop new regulations requiring nursing homes to require that all of their workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. These new regulations would apply to nearly 15,000 nursing home facilities, which employ approximately 1.6 million workers and serve approximately 1.3 million nursing home residents.
That's not all. In a public address (he's not even hiding it now), Biden instructed his Department of Education to take legal action against governors who have prohibited schools from requiring masks. There is no evidence that mask mandates work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools, but Biden is moving forward nonetheless:
“Today, I am directing the Secretary of Education — an educator himself — to take additional steps to protect our children. This includes using all of his oversight authorities and legal actions, if appropriate, against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators.”
Don't be fooled: this has nothing to do with vaccines, masks, or COVID-19. This is a power-grab by the federal government, and the virus just happens to be a convenient excuse.
In the system of government envisioned by our Founders, the president does not have the power to force states and private businesses to impose any kind of medical mandate. Laws are to be created by the people's representatives in Congress and state governments. When the president moves to impose policies that have the force of law, We the People lose our representation. Just as the Founders cried "no taxation without representation," we should now cry "no laws and mandates without representation."
This isn't about what is decided; this is about who decides. Should the president have the power to impose nationwide healthcare mandates? Or should those decisions be left to the states and the people?
If you believe power should stay as close to home as possible, you've come to the right place. An Article V Convention of State is the only way to limit federal power via the state-driven constitutional amendment process.
Called by 34 states, all states convene at a Convention of States to propose and vote on amendments. The amendments that make it out of the Convention are sent back to the states, and 38 states must agree on any proposals before they become part of the Constitution.
Amendments can be proposed to limit the power of the president, ban executive orders, prohibit mandates from executive agencies, and eliminate the alphabet soup of federal bureaucracies. These amendments can restore our representation by clarifying that Congress--and only Congress--can create laws. They can force Congress to be fiscally responsible, mandate term limits for career swamp monsters like Biden, and finally restore decision-making power where it belongs--with the states and the people.
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