As of this week, Washington residents have lived under emergency governance, brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, for 900 straight days.
Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Delaware, Illinois, and New York all have emergency governance orders ending in August, according to the National Academy for State Health Policy. Rhode Island’s Disaster Emergency Plan is set to expire September 2.
Only California, West Virginia, and Washington have emergency orders in place with no official end date.
“This is an important policy issue. It’s important that we have a government that responds to the people in the way our constitution envisioned,” Republican Senator John Braun said on the Dori
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