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Biden: I’d use ‘federal leverage’ to require mask-wearing in public

By Emily Brooks
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Biden: I’d use ‘federal leverage’ to require mask-wearing in public

Joe Biden said that he would use executive power to try to mandate the wearing of face masks in public if elected president.

“I would insist that everybody in public be wearing that mask,” Biden told local Pittsburgh CBS news station KDKA after giving an address on the Affordable Care Act in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. “Anyone to reopen, it would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks.”

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