President Joe Biden will not veto a resolution that will end the COVID-19 national emergency a month earlier than scheduled, a White House spokesperson confirmed on March 29.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained why in the March 30 press briefing.
“If the President was planning to veto this legislation, the SAP (Statement of Administrative Policy) would have said so,” Jean-Pierre said. “And certainly members of Congress know that. They understand how that works, and how that process works as well.
“We are in a different place and time than we were in January. That is something that you all know and have reported,” Jean-Pierre added. “We’ve been winding down authorities over the last two months, and the national emergency lifting just a few weeks before the public health one will not impact our efforts to do so in an orderly way.”…}
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