{"id":17670,"date":"2022-10-14T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17670"},"modified":"2022-10-14T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:45:19","slug":"bidens-covid-emergency-is-a-dictatorial-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/14\/bidens-covid-emergency-is-a-dictatorial-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Covid Emergency is a Dictatorial Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single__content entry-content m-bottom \">\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--primary-tag\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading widget-heading widget-heading--sm\"><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h3>New York Post, October 15, 2022<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/14\/biden-prolongs-covid-emergency-to-act-like-a-dictator\/\">President Biden keeps the COVID \u2018emergency\u2019 going so he can act like a dictator<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-header__meta\" aria-label=\"Byline\">\n<div class=\"byline meta meta--byline\">By <a class=\"meta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/14\/biden-prolongs-covid-emergency-to-act-like-a-dictator\/#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"flyout-james-bovard\">James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration proclaimed Thursday that America\u2019s COVID \u201cemergency\u201d continues. Yet last month President Biden told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d: \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/19\/biden-told-60-minutes-covid-pandemic-is-over-sparking-liberal-backlash\/\">pandemic is over.<\/a> We still have a problem with COVID. We\u2019re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How can there still be an emergency when the pandemic is over? Because the \u201cemergency\u201d is that Democrats need votes.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/21\/trump-on-coronavirus-not-much-could-have-done-differently\/\">decreed the first COVID emergency<\/a> in early 2020. Rather than an official White House proclamation, the latest emergency extension occurred via a bureaucratic form letter posted online: \u201cAs a result of the continued consequences of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, on this date and after consultation with public health officials as necessary, I, Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services . . . do hereby renew\u201d the emergency for another 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>By this standard, as long as there are any \u201ccontinuing consequences\u201d from COVID, Biden can perpetuate the emergency that gives him vast new powers. Administration officials warn that COVID cases could increase in the coming months. Plus, another asteroid might pass within 100 million miles of earth, so better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s emergency perpetuation seeks to provide a legal whitewash for his $400+ billion student-loan bailout charade. Biden justified the bailout by citing the HEROES Act of 2003 \u2014 a law passed to assist soldiers and their family members during the war on terror. Lawsuits are challenging Biden\u2019s debt cancellation. The Supreme Court may strike it down \u2014 but not until after Democrats have pocketed legions of votes from grateful beneficiaries in the mid-term.<\/p>\n<p>Extending the emergency also enables the federal government to continue providing Medicaid and Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program benefits for 15 million people who would not otherwise qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Since Biden took office, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/20\/arrests-at-us-mexico-border-surpass-2-million\/\">more than 2 million illegal immigrants<\/a> have crossed into this nation as his appointees opened the floodgates. But with indignation about the immigrant surge erupting even on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, the Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will expel all Venezuelans entering the United States illegally, and other nations\u2019 immigrants will likely also be targeted. Team Biden is relying on the Title 42 public-health order that Trump imposed as part of the COVID emergency response \u2014 a policy that Biden previously condemned. It is unclear whether Biden\u2019s Title 42 crackdown on immigration will continue after Election Day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-inline-cta\" data-comment-count=\"\" data-prompt=\"What do you think?\">\u00a0The party that claims to \u201cdefend Democracy\u201d is practicing tyranny, giving Biden extra-presidential powers. He\u2019s spending money Congress has not approved, and making decisions that are Constitutionally wrong \u2014 and reciting a single word, \u201cCOVID,\u201d to justify it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Biden\u2019s emergency extension should spur Americans to recognize how fighting COVID with a political iron fist was an unmitigated disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, October 15, 2022 President Biden keeps the COVID \u2018emergency\u2019 going so he can act like a dictator By James Bovard The Biden administration proclaimed Thursday that America\u2019s COVID \u201cemergency\u201d continues. Yet last month President Biden told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d: \u201cThe pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. 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