The White House on Wednesday said President Joe Biden’s administration would continue to defend mask mandates leveled by the Centers for Disease Control, despite airline passengers celebrating a court ruling effectively ending them.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the two-week extension of the mask mandate on planes and public transportation, arguing the CDC “felt they needed that” to examine more data about the coronavirus pandemic.
She said the Justice Department announced its willingness to defend the CDC’s mandate to help preserve the agency’s power over public transportation.
“I mean our focus here was seeing what power we had to preserve what we felt was in the public health interest of the country,” Psaki explained.
She defended the mandate extension as “entirely warranted” and “entirely reasonable.”
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