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‘Mask-erpiece Theater’: GOP Lawmakers Rip Pelosi For Requiring Masks Despite CDC Decision

"Cowering in fear in defiance of common sense."

Hank Berrien
‘Mask-erpiece Theater’: GOP Lawmakers Rip Pelosi For Requiring Masks Despite CDC Decision
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After House Speaker Nancy Pelosy unilaterally decided that House members should be required to wear masks, despite the proclamation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that fully vaccinated Americans can generally jettison their masks indoors, 34 GOP members of the House sent Pelosi a letter protesting the decision, with one of them referring to her decision as “cowering in fear in defiance of common sense” and calling it “Mask-erpiece Theater.”

Pelosi told CNN that she would not permit the House’s mask mandate to be lifted, adding, “Are they all vaccinated?”

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