Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie said that the federal mask mandates on airlines kept him out of the skies for nearly a year, instead choosing to drive between his home state and Washington, D.C.
In the hours after a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandates on public transportation, Massie applauded the ruling and said the administration should be held accountable for how it treated people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UBER ENDS MASK REQUIREMENT FOR US DRIVERS AND RIDERS
“I haven’t been on an airplane since July of 2021,” Massie tweeted Monday evening. “I have driven to DC every week we have been in session, because I refuse to be treated like livestock. Biden lost in the courts. If the airlines come to their senses, I will fly again, but not until then.”
As several of the largest airlines dropped their mask mandates in response to the ruling, Massie thanked them for their decisions. He also called for Director Rochelle Walensky of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to resign as “a federal court just ruled that you have been breaking the law.”
.@CDCgov NEVER had the legal authority to impose or authorize a mask mandate on airplanes and other modes of transportation.
Glad to see the illogical, illegal, unscientific mask mandate come to an end!
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 18, 2022
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Massie, who has strong libertarian leanings, filed a lawsuit against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate for House business, along with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. They racked up fines for each time they refused to wear masks, and the lawsuit was thrown out last month.
Massie, who was first elected to his congressional seat in 2012, is among a relatively small number of House members and senators with a scientific background. Massie earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
