“The Covid emergency will end when the Supreme Court ends it,” Biden responded. “We’ve extended to May the 11th to make sure we get everything done.”
The comment comes after Biden informed Congress on Monday that he would be ending two emergency orders regarding the Covid-19 pandemic on May 11, 2023, over three years after they were enacted.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in a Statement of Administration Policy that Biden will be extending one last time the Covid national emergency, which was scheduled to expire on March 1, and the public health emergency (PHE), which was set to expire on April 11.
On May 11, these two emergency orders will be allowed to expire.
According to the OMB, “An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans.”