Be careful what you wish for. This is exactly how people on both sides have pushed their agendas. They use the power of the purse to strongly encourage or discourage a policy or behavior. For most things, I don’t want my federal government using its power this way. Covid policy is handled perfectly fine at the local level. And I would rather that the Department of Education, with its minions and millions poisoning our school systems for no good, didn’t exist.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed Friday by President Donald Trump.

 

The order is expected to have little national impact because COVID-19 vaccine mandates have mostly been dropped at schools and colleges across the United States, and many states have passed legislation forbidding such mandates.

 

The order directs the Education Department and Health and Human Services to create a plan to end vaccine mandates for COVID-19. The agencies are asked to identify any discretionary federal grants or contracts going to schools that violate the order, and remove funding “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”