Armstrong Joins all for Immediate End to Transportation Mask Mandate

Press Release

Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) joined Congressmen Sam Graves (R-MO) and Garret Graves (R-LA), and 126 House Republicans to call on the Biden administration to rescind its arbitrary extension of the federal transportation mask mandate.

The Members sent their letter to the President after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it was extending the expiring mandate for aviation and public transportation passengers and workers through April 18, 2022.

"The Biden administration's mask mandate extension for transportation doesn't make any sense. We need to end this arbitrary mandate and put the power to make decisions back in the hands of Americans, not the federal government," said Congressman Armstrong.

Highlights from the letter:

All across America, masks are coming off as both Republican and Democratic led state governments are dropping mask mandates in the face of delayed, confused, and contradictory CDC guidance.
The transportation mask mandate extension absurdly came on the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that more than 98% of the U.S. population lives in areas where wearing masks indoors is no longer advised as a necessary preventative measure.
The airline industry, fighting to recover from the pandemic and high fuel prices, has taken extraordinary measures to keep passengers safe, including the use of effective onboard High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filtration systems and strong disinfection practices and policies.
The Administration failed to do the necessary work to harmonize its policies between the CDC's February 25th announcement of its new Community Level framework and the TSA's March 10th extension of the transportation mask mandate -- applying one standard to most Americans and another to transportation users and workers.

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