Glenn Youngkin Ends School Mask Mandates After He's Sworn In As Virginia Governor
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Trends Reporter, HuffPostRepublican Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive who never before held public office, signed 11 executive orders on Saturday just hours after he was sworn in as 74th governor of Virginia.He ended mask mandates in public schools, dropped vaccine requirements for state workers, and barred the teaching of critical race theory.He also withdrew the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is aimed at reducing carbon pollution in conjunction with neighboring states, and declared Virginia “open for business.” Youngkin has named Andrew Wheeler, Donald Trump’s former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, to the state’s top environmental post.The string of orders seemed to be an about-face on Youngkin’s message of bipartisanship and optimism.He pledged to “restore trust in government and to restore power to the people” at his swearing-in ceremony in Richmond.
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