After the onset of COVID-19, most states enforced some combination of lockdowns and mask mandates — all of which were driven by governors’ emergency powers.
Some chief executives — such as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who said that “we will never do any of these lockdowns again” — reversed their executive orders in the summer of 2020. Many Republican governors — such as Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Asa Hutchinson (R-AK) — have dropped their state’s mask mandates in the past several weeks.
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