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WASHINGTON — President Trump will sign an order Friday barring federal funding for schools and universities that require students to take COVID-19 vaccines.
The executive order, first reported by Breitbart News, comes roughly five years after the novel coronavirus arrived in the US, killing more than 1 million Americans and unleashing massive economic, social and educational upheaval.
Highly effective vaccines were developed in late 2020 through Trump’s first-term Operation Warp Speed, but Republicans generally have opposed vaccine mandates imposed on federal employees and by state and local entities.
Vaccines have become less effective at blocking COVID-19 transmission while newer variants of the virus have become less lethal over time.
Twenty-one states currently ban coronavirus vaccine mandates in schools, according to the National Academy for State Public Health, including Republican bastions such as Texas and Florida and Democratic-led jurisdictions including Arizona and Michigan.
It’s unclear precisely how much money could be clawed back if state and local officials refuse to comply.
Federal funding for schools has long been a mechanism for Washington to intervene in educations, which is mostly regulated locally.
For example, the Senate passed a proposed rule in 1994 to bar schools with federal funding from advocating “the promotion of homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative” — a measure supported by then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), who went on to become president. That dictate wasn’t approved by the House and so did not become law.
Trump, who took office Jan. 20, has authorized Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to chop up to $1 trillion from annual federal spending through massive staff and grant reductions, with early targets including USAID, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Education Department, each of which Trump hopes to ultimately eliminate.
