President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to cut federal funds to schools and universities that have a mandatory vaccination requirement against COVID.
Its decree vetoes the use of such funds to support or subsidize an agency of educational services, state or local education, a primary or secondary school or a higher education institution that requires students to have received that vaccine to attend educational programs in person.
His signature occurs a day after the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health. The latter, son of former US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former Democratic president John F. Kennedy (JFK), both killed in the sixties, is known for his theories against vaccines.
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The complete content of the Trump order has not yet been facilitated, but according to some media, it orders Kennedy Jr. and its nominated as Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, “to establish compliance guidelines“ and provide a plan to end The coercive mandates of the COVID-19 vaccine, ”according to the media.
Trump confirmed from the oval office that this order will be executed through the Department of Education.
The Republican leader, who began his second term on January 20 after beating the then vice president, the Democrat Kamala Harris, had already advanced during the campaign his intention not to allow schools to impose mandatory mandates of vaccines against vaccines against The covid and not giving “a penny” to those centers.
It is not his first executive order with COVID as axis. On January 27, he signed another to return with retroactive payment to the members of the active and reserve military service that were discharged during the administration of Joe Biden for refusing to vaccinate.
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