Biden needs to roll back his mask mandate and encourage states to do the same

Published April 27, 2021 4:09pm ET



President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office are almost up, which means his federal mask mandate should be too.

When Biden signed an executive order requiring masks on all federal property, indoors and outdoors, he promised it wouldn’t last long. “Just 100 days to mask, not forever,” he said. “One hundred days.” Now that timeline is up, and Biden must decide whether to shift the goalposts again, as health officials have been doing for more than a year, or keep his word and repeal the mandate.

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