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After Pennsylvanians approved a constitutional amendment giving the state legislature broad authority to end or change a governor’s disaster declarations, lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill aimed at dismantling many of Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic mitigation efforts.
Republicans have chafed under Wolf’s COVID-19 orders for more than a year, and have tried repeatedly to take back some measure of control. But as they flex their new powers, there are still major disagreements about exactly how far those powers extend.
Because Wolf’s administration has been gradually phasing out the major components of his disaster measures, like business closures, many of the changes that the resolution would make are already moot.
Pennsylvania Republicans have chafed under Wolf’s COVID-19 orders for more than a year, and have tried repeatedly to take back some measure of control.
Pa. state government employees are slowly returning to the office after pandemic year
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Remote working could be here to stay in some state agencies.
A year of telecommuting and Zoom calls has left some agencies thinking that more work days going forward may not need to be done inside a government office building.
Now that Gov. Tom Wolf has announced the lifting of his COVID-19 mitigation orders with the exception of the mask order in less than two weeks, pressure continues to build from Republican lawmakers to get government employees back to the office.
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