“We know that we want our audience to have a lot of confidence coming into the building. And we don’t want to do anything that shakes that confidence.”

The Texas senator says only parents should get to decide if their kids get COVID-19 vaccine, despite D.C. and Texas requiring a host of other vaccines for kids going to school.

Eight members of the D.C. Council are asking Mayor Muriel Bowser to do away with employees’ option to submit to weekly coronavirus testing instead of getting a shot.

The largest school system in the D.C. region has joined other local districts by requiring COVID-19 vaccination for teachers.