McConnell calls for end to masking in schools and state of emergency wind-down

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on state governments to rescind mask mandates for school children as well as a pivot from an emergency pandemic footing to accept that COVID-19 is here to stay.

“Across the country, bureaucrats are still forcing young children to wear masks to participate in society when neither kids nor vaccinated adults are remotely likely to get gravely ill,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on Wednesday. “What exactly are we doing here? Where are the goalposts? What is the end game?”