New Emails Show Biden Admin Received Threats From Teachers Union Just Before Tightening Mask Rules

The 🏥Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted stricter mask guidelines for public schools after a major teachers union pressured the agency to do so, according to newly revealed emails.

Email correspondence obtained by Fox News — courtesy of the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust — between officials from the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, and the White House indicate the Biden administration gave in to the NEA’s push to have the CDC publicly release more rigorous mask recommendations.

The CDC announced on May 13 that fully vaccinated people did not have to wear masks.

A day later, on May 14, the NEA sent a letter to the White House regarding confusion about how the new policy would apply to schools and demanding an explanation.

A first draft of the letter complained about the CDC “releasing the guidance without accompanying school-related updates creates confusion and fuels the internal politicization of this basic health and safety issue.”

“CDC has consistently said, and studies support, that mitigation measures, including to protect the most vulnerable, remain necessary in schools and institutions of higher education — particularly because no elementary or middle school students, and few high school students, have been vaccinated,” the draft statement said.