GOP Lawmakers Question Safety Agency’s Continued Covid Rule Push

Republican lawmakers are asking why OSHA continues to work on a Covid-19 standard for the health-care industry in the wake of President Joe Biden’s comments that the virus’ threat has ended.

“At the same time President Biden proclaimed the pandemic over, his own administration continued to move forward with a Covid-19 rulemaking,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, told the agency in a letter Monday.

“This is the height of foolishness,” she and Rep. Fred Keller (R-Pa.) wrote.

The lawmakers also questioned whether the standard could pass a court challenge, ...