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Congressman Garcia calls on Biden to “follow the science” and encourage California to reopen schools

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Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican whose 25th District includes the Antelope Valley, joined 66 other Members of Congress to send a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to “follow the science on COVID-19” and encourage state and local leaders to reopen schools across California and the United States.

“We must reopen schools as soon as possible, and I don’t mean just one day a week as the Biden Administration ridiculously proposed,” Garcia said. “We are depriving children of the education and support that they need. It is time for President Biden and Governor Newsom to listen to the science and open our schools and communities back up.”

In the letter, the lawmakers requested that Biden follow through with the pledge he made during his campaign and inauguration to follow the science when it comes to COVID-19.

“Approximately six percent of children in the United States struggle with some form of emotional or behavioral difficulties, including autism, depression, and trauma-related mental health conditions. Many of those children depend upon their schools for access to the therapies they need. By allowing our nation’s schools to remain shuttered, you are depriving these children of the people and support systems they depend on,” the lawmakers wrote. “In addition to the impact of the youth mental health crisis, school closures are increasing education inequality in the United States.”

In the letter, the lawmakers also pointed out that case numbers and hospitalizations continue to drop across the country and urged Biden to encourage state and local leaders to begin the process of fully reopening the economy. The lawmakers point out that currently there are nearly ten million fewer jobs in the U.S. than before the pandemic.

“Our community and country have been devastated by mandated lockdowns,” Garcia said. “It is imperative that we do all we can to help our communities safely open up again. Many small businesses have had to shutter their doors and many more individuals have been left unemployed. It does not help that the State of California is struggling to properly distribute unemployment claims to Californians in need. We cannot continue down this path that is destroying our economy and community.”

Click here to read the full letter.

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75 comments for "Congressman Garcia calls on Biden to “follow the science” and encourage California to reopen schools"

  1. You know… I was going to go through all of your ridiculous points individually, but one statement that you made stuck out at me and really said it all about the mindset of you trumplicans…

    You trumplicans seem to truly believe that you have no control over anything that occurs around you and that ‘da dems’ are all ‘out to get you’ in literally EVERYTHING. And I mean EVERYTHING: You morons are now even trying to find conspiracies in which vaccine is given to whom based upon political party when NOBODY ASKS ABOUT PARTY TO GET A VACCINATION.

    You take this even to the point of believing, somehow, that your republican party was fractured by ‘da dems.’ Seriously? How? Is your party’s structure so weak that some other party can destroy it? Isn’t it YOUR party, with YOUR people in it? If you guys can’t get your plank straight, that isn’t anyone’s fault but your own.

    I would ask just how stupid you can be, but you trumplicans always seem to take that as a challenge.

    Trumpism is curable.

    • Don’t ya know?
      They use the voter registration to determine who gets which one.
      — yes, this is sarcastic, and a step ahead of where they are thinking at the moment, but it will spread like wildfire now —

      • They’ve grown skeptical of government because it doesn’t necessarily have a great track record in the honesty department.

        • Although you are correct in the track record for the government in general, there’s more to it than just that. Trump and his allies have truly messed with the heads of our fellow citizens with just plain outright lies that are provably false, over and over again.

          Yet, due to these lies coming from a President that they wanted to believe in, and in spite of all evidence to the contrary, they have actually accepted what they would have otherwise repudiated as the lies that they are.

          This leaves us now with a government with an only so so record of honesty (as you noted) tasked with trying to set the records straight again.

          I truly do miss actual political debate on these forums. I enjoy the lively debates on the different viewpoints of how to move our country forward. Sadly, such is not possible when dealing with people who have resigned themselves from the same reality as the rest of us and are no longer willing to work within the confines of the sociopolitical contract of the Constitution. It’s tough to debate an issue when the opposition isn’t dealing in reality, telling the truth, or acting in an honorable fashion. So, here we are; calling out the bullschnit when it is flung and just hoping that some of our fellow community members can snap out of it and rejoin reality.

    • I think politics has purposely rooted itself deeply into modern day society to break any sense of friendship and community. Today we have people on both sides calling eachother names, willing to fight eachother over some political party or political rhetoric that wouldn’t hesitate to rip any of the freedoms you enjoy today.

      As you’re ripping eachothers throats out, just as you’ve been indoctrinated to by the people you gravitate to, those you call “leaders”, they’ll continue to tax you in order to continue living luxurious lives beyond your imagination.

      Perhaps see eachother as equals rather than fight amongst eachother. Understand that the enemy isn’t your neighbor. Its the people in office who subliminally push you to hate those who carry a different opinion than your own.

  2. Once Bejing-Biden was formally inaugurated, the GOP ceased to technically exist as a meaningful, singular political body. Sheepishly conceding on election-rigging, happy to inaugurate the most incompetent, the most corrupt democrat in American history, the 5 splintered remnants of the once proud GOP dangle in limbo, hanging on by a thread as ancillary spokes to the centralized Democrat party hub. The combination affected, America’s right-leaning moderates and conservatives are left socially ostracized by mainstream and social media, beached on a political sandbar, marooned, no meaningful representation at federal level. Limousine liberals gone berserk, busy laying Republicans off high-paying jobs, covering up their election-rigging folly, cooking the books on their popularity polls, America is now officially reduced, to a single-party autocracy.

  3. Things are so bad here in America, ANTIFA terrorists successfully terrified United States Supreme Court justices, into dismissing election-rigging on a frivolous, slapdash technicality. The crime of the century, the greatest heist in world history, America’s supreme court waffled.

  4. For the democrats, life’s a great big bowl of cherries! Now that Bejing-Biden’s president, Hunter Biden can keep all the foreign aid he’s skimmed.

  5. 62% is a good number.

    Trump has driven his supporters crazy. The ones that will spend time in jail for storming the Capital are not much different than the ones who are posting to this site…all CRAZY.

    Biden/Harris won in a landslide victory. He’s put together a great team, not some unqualified, inept and ignorant grifters like Trump had around him.

    Biden has a 62% job approval rating while Trump never, ever got above 50% if that.

    Clinton had a 65% job approval rating during his impeachment.

    Democrats know how to govern don’t they Trumpist and all your aliases?

    Any questions? Try not to lie out of habit.

  6. An aloof, absentee supreme court, in hiding from the real world, whacked-out democrats run amok, left wholly unchecked by spineless, Lilly-livered republicans, American’s democracy is so screwed up, God himself is powerless to help.

  7. California republicans, I have the best solution for your pain and anguish:

    1. You should definitely form a third party, call it The Patriot Party ASAP
    2. Don’t get the vaccine, who knows if you are getting the same vaccine as Democrats, just skip them, can’t be too sure
    3. Move away from CA to a red state away from the border and stay there, I’m thinking Wyoming or even Nebraska. Go now! Pack your things and sell everything you own
    4. When health insurance for all comes, don’t apply, you don’t want any of that ugly socialism
    5. To piss everyone off, do not wear your masks, I repeat, do not wear your masks, that’ll teach them

    You are all indestructible and you never follow sheep, science is for morons, just kiss the Bible and pray and you will be safe. Don’t fall for the trap crazy educated democrats placed for your peril.

  8. … no more kangaroo court for the democrats’ amusement and merriment, what are they going to do, now? Flat out of kangaroo impeachments, to deflect from their election-rigging scandal, what’s a dittohead-democrat dunce to do?

    • Typical lying trumplican trafficking in revisionist bullschnit… again. The recession and massive rug-pulling on employment already started under your amazingly incompetent orange baboon god’s watch. At this point, one starts to surmise that this may be intentional.

      Now, seriously, cut out the stupidity and rejoin reality, please.

      • Trump and his smaller and smaller group of followers do, indeed, suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, as they are all confused and unable to think clearly… including what words actually mean.

        Trumplicans allow themselves to blindly accept and internalize lies told by their little orange baboon god and will even allow themselves to forget history as recent as even a month ago, if he or his acolytes tell them to, and will actually revise their own memories to support their, now accepted, lie. This, by definition, is derangement and applies far more appropriately to trumplicans… like yourself, for example.

        Fortunately, you can escape Trump Derangement Syndrome. Many thousands of former trumplicans are coming back to their senses and rejoining reality, realizing the intrinsic harm and long term danger of the nazi-esque qualities of trumpism. You CAN recover, Dinah. You can escape the matrix of trumplican delusions and fantasies and join us in reality.

    • Okay… Right off the bat, “dittohead” is a republican reference term. Your use of it in this way indicates remarkable mental density and Rush would be very disappointed in you.

      Since you anti-Constitution trumplicans all claim democrats to be soooo stupid, how could they hide such a purportedly massive operation as a national election rigging with absolutely NO EVIDENCE to be found – AT ALL?… Or, are you now claiming that democrats are just too smart for you poor widdle simple-minded trumplicans? If you believe that it’s the latter, you may as well give up now, then, and move to North Korea, where you’ll be able to have all of your decisions and opinions made for you by a ‘dear leader’ like Trump wanted to be.

      • Plenty to be found. The gods and goddesses of the D.C. clan swept it all away so they could now go on with their money laundering. Nothing to see here…..quick, impeach a guy that isn’t even able to be removed from office. I wonder what the next distraction from Uncle Joe’s mad signing party will be. Maybe something big. That way they can run it non stop for a few weeks.

        • The typical deranged hypocrisy of a loyal little trumplican. The only reason why your little orange baboon god was out of office at the time of the impeachment trial was because YOUR people delayed it until he was gone (allowing for all of us to risk even worse dangers to the country than your little insurrection). YOU are, once again, to blame for the very thing you are accusing everyone else of.

          Trumplicans allow themselves to blindly accept and internalize lies told by their little orange baboon god and will even allow themselves to forget history as recent as even a month ago, if he or his acolytes tell them to, and will actually revise their own memories to support their, now accepted, lie. This, by definition, is derangement and applies far more appropriately to trumplicans… like yourself, for example.

        • Already happening. You don’t agree, or donate to the wrong party, they “cancel” you. Mike Lindell is the latest example. He speaks in favor of the Republican party and capitalism, next thing you know, a bunch of well known Democrat supporting corporate businesses cancel him. Elon Musk is another in hot water. Any Hollywood actor who sides the wrong way, canceled.

          I am sure Dave/Stinger will have a rant on this subject. Only thing is…..his yelling is only heard by him and his neighbors through his basement windows.

        • @AV Illegal: As usual, you failed to get the point about Mike Lindell. It would help if you actually looked at all the news and not just the pablum spit up for you in the Faux News/OAN/Newsmax opinion shows.

          Mike Lindell is facing the inevitable consequences of his insistence on continuing with the stolen election lie and actively attempting to get Trump to overthrow the election with military force for a coup. That last part tends to make any other businessmen uneasy as it could negatively affect the stability of the country and hurt business. Therefore, Mike Lindell is too much of a risk to do business with. It isn’t ‘cancel culture.’ It’s the inevitable hand of the free market yielding consequences for crazed actions that can hurt everybody.

          Trumpism is curable, goebbler.

        • I know Stinger/Dave, we should all watch CNN. I don’t watch any of those mentioned. I do actual research. Another way to say cancel today is liability. Instead of allowing an opinion, they cancel you because of “liability”. If he (Lindell) were democrat, there would be no liability. He would be protected by his media and business partners. Because he speaks from a republican standpoint, he is a liability, cancel him.

          I notice you didn’t even go into the other examples….How about the recent attacks on the NRA? Cancel them….call them a terrorist organization. There are a lot of democrat members, and democrat gun owners.

          Ok Dave/Stinger, call me the newest of your recently found names you have come across in your democrat playbook websites. I enjoy seeing you all use the same terms like a bunch of programmed robots.

    • Always with the superficial outrage, Democrats need their whipping boy. I think they’ll cook up another witch hunt.

    • Frequency illusion, Democrats will do what they always do, only doing things which fortify their narrative, wholly disregarding viable alternatives which don’t.

      • The problem with your claim is; you have yet to present any ‘viable’ alternatives to what the rest of the world has accepted as reality.

        Trumpism is curable!

    • Democrats couldn’t balance a checkbook, much less rig an election. With a wink and a nod from McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer and McCarthy, the 2020 election was joint Defense-Intel circus, in collusion to deal President Trump out.

      • Amazing…

        Here we see the power of idiotic conspiracy nuts to adapt against facts. If the conspiracy format that you claimed to happen didn’t happen, just claim it was someone else that did the nonexistent thing you claim to have happened and lie, lie, lie.

        Truly pathetic.

    • #2 democrat priority, making the world safe, for pedophilia, and the gay way. They know they can’t get you. Whacked-out democrats are going to make a grab for your children, use public education to brainwash them, assault them with reverse-racism, blight their adolescence with sexual ambiguity.

      • Okay… I’ve figured out a better term for you idiot trumplicans: Goebbelers. So named for your predecessor, Joseph Goebbels, the nazi propagandist who so famously stated; “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

        So, to you I say, goebbel, goebbel, goebbel.

        You are a liar.

      • It’s always a good idea to clean up your own house first before you point fingers at another house. There are too many Republicans to mention that have been busted going the gay way with Grindr accounts and secret boyfriends while protesting gay rights. With all your screen-names you are a bit ambiguous, but your comments are the same.

    • but trump cried every time his name was in the media & he controlled what Fox News said about him….but the Dems are trying to control the media? & a blanket patrol over polling, yet he allowed & encouraged a coup?
      you ppl kill me with the delusions! make it make sense.

  9. Scratch the surface, hypocrisy of the democrat party’s policy-making becomes incidental. And, what we begin to realize is, the Democrats have no fundamental belief system beyond imposing harshly against their foes, meting out political payback.

    Conceived and implemented for political payback, it becomes clearly evident Democrat policies they impress upon Americans aren’t anything steeped in social-political philosophy, but instead, trite, sophomoric, petty retribution.

    The democrats love making abortion as bloody and disgusting as humanly possible, because they well know how deeply it angers their conservative and Christian opponents. They love releasing violent criminals into society, reopening the southern border to illegal immigration, because they know, a disproportionate burden of the crime is always committed, upon their political foes.

    There are no conservatives or liberals in America’s legislature. Faux liberals, Democrats are more about political payback, than righteous, textbook, theoretic liberalism. Faux conservatives, similarly so, Washington DC Republicans.

    No gentle way of putting this, the government in Washington DC no longer represents the United States of America.

    • What an incredible diarrhea of polarized insanity you’ve babbled here, Alfredo.

      Please seek professional assistance. Seriously. Not kidding or trying to be being mean, here, dude. You have seriously left the arena of political hyperbole and entered into the realm of truly crazy conspiracy nutjob stuff.

      • You said it well Stinger.

        How does one respond to lying liars and those who project their sickness on others?

        Their Trump GOD is THE “God of Payback” so they turn it around and point fingers at Democrats.

        In fact, they do everything on steroids that they say Democrats do.

        They aren’t getting enough bran in their diets it seems.

        • Funny….,Dave, Stinger. At least leave a little space there so it’s not so obvious.

          Typical of you (both) to ridicule someone who actually has valid points. Don’t agree, belittle and call names. How grade school of you (both)

          • So, you (once again) managed to miss the point of our posts, yet managed (once again) to eke out ‘valid points’ out of the pure psychotic drivel of your buddy’s little ‘insanity alfredo?’

            Kinda says it all about your grasp on reality, don’t it?

      • Ah! Whacked-out democrats, flying off the rails, denote their distinct, readily discernible guilt ridden sensitivity percolating, right up to surface, whensoever the subject of election rigging arises!

        • The GOP is coming apart at the seams with the crazies going with Trump and the few sane Republicans aren’t.

          That’s it. Break into 2 parties and you’ll never win the White House again.

        • Nope. We’re just getting really tired of die-hard crackhead trumplican nazi liars who refuse to accept objective reality.

          Seriously; I’d debate rationally and politely with you guys if you weren’t so out of touch with reality.

      • Just a wee but sensitive are we, on the subject of election-rigging? You, a stalwart a ditto-head democrat, understandably so.

  10. What? A GOP Sedition Party Trump degenerate saying “follow the science”?

    That’s like Jeffrey Dahmer calling on parents to treat their children well. :\

  14. If these crazed, irrational democrats continue doing what they’re doing, the red states will inevitably cede. If the country splits, I don’t know what I’ll do.

  15. The Russia hoax, the kangaroo court impeachments, one right after the other, the election rigging and its subsequent cover-up, the Biden family corruption and its subsequent cover-up, the democrat party’s ties to ANTIFA, and the party’s subversion by communist China, I never left the democrat party. It abandoned me.

    • It’s not going to matter who you vote for, anymore. The Democratic party and the Republican party no longer exist. Whatever it was that’s taken them over, nobody knows.

  17. Democrats want this virus to wipe-out Republicans. Question is, how? Social events, places we tend to frequent Democrats don’t, I think that’s how they’ll want to do it. Reopening the southern border’s a good start.

  18. Dedicated to making China great, again, the greatest democrats in the annals of election-rigging, Bejing-Biden and his faithful sidekick, ANTIFA-Harris!

      • Well Biden dont seem to worry about Covid when illegals are pouring in from the border and not being screened at all. Explain that one Democrats.

        • The democrats need not explain what bizarre fantasies that you might conjure up in your beady little mind… You might try a psychoanalyst for this one.

    • Everyone knows, elected democrats colluded with defense-intelligence, to rig our 2020 election. And, they know we know. Whacked-out democrats have proven beyond doubt, they can do just about anything they darned well please.

      But, with one exception: free ‘n fair elections.

      • Where you been? Better wake up, smell the coffee, pal. Free & fair elections here in America, poof-gone. Forever. You now live in a democrat oligarchy. Brave new world, mind what you say.

      • Define, “everyone.” I love it when you moronic trumplicans use clearly hyperbolic terms without any idea what you are saying… the only thing ‘proven beyond doubt’ is that you clowns are truly in magical trumpland and not here on Earth.

        Provide evidence of your bullschnit or admit that you are basing it on hearsay and not reality.

      • Biden knew from the outset, in a free and fair election, no way he ever could have won. The Obamas and the Clintons putting the fix in, Biden knew months in advance, no need to campaign. All he had to do, sit tight in his basement, don’t talk it up too much, avoid the press. Had democrats not stepped in to rig the Maine, Virginia and the swing states, Biden would have been wiped out.

        • I am trying so hard to not just call you an idiot, but you are really making it difficult not to.

          You are trafficking in bullschnit… still. The election is over. Trump lost, fair and square, and you clowns all know it. IF there had been any proof, it would have already been presented. Since you dorks all claim democrats to be stupid, there would be no way for them to hide such a purportedly massive operation… Or, are you now claiming that democrats are too smart for you poor simple trumplicans?

          Now, seriously, cut out the stupidity and rejoin reality, please.

        • Again… who is, “everybody?” You trumplicans can never seem to come up with anything of substance, just more bullschnit.

          So pathetic.

      • The crime of the century, the greatest heist in human history, the most extensive, bewildering, complicated cover-up since the JFK assassination, no way election rigging on such scale could ever have occurred, without McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi and McCarthy, elbows deep in the middle of it.