President Donald Trump has made it clear that schools enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates will no longer receive federal funding. In an executive order signed Friday, Trump directed the federal government to strip funding from educational institutions that continue to impose vaccine requirements, effectively ending financial support for any school that disregards medical freedom.
The order tasks Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and the Secretary of Education with identifying which institutions still enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Once identified, those schools will face the loss of federal grants and contracts unless they change their policies.
Trump just defunded any school that still has a COVID jab requirement. I voted for this.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 14, 2025
Trump has consistently opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates, calling them coercive and unnecessary. His latest executive action builds on his January order, which declared vaccine mandates in the military to be unjust and called for the reinstatement of service members who were discharged for refusing the shot.
Remember when Biden threatened that if you don’t get the covid vaccine you will die??
Trump just stripped funding from schools if they mandate the vaccine.
Thank you President Trump! This is what we voted for! pic.twitter.com/UzyKPKl73X
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2025
While most schools have lifted vaccine mandates, a handful of universities have continued to require students to be vaccinated, particularly those living in campus housing. Trump’s order now puts pressure on those institutions to abandon the mandates or lose federal funding.
Trump has fired a warning shot to Big Pharma says Dr Naomi Wolf with his ban on funding schools that mandate the covid vaccine.
Schools were given millions of dollars to ‘traffic the kids bodies essentially for Pharma’.
That all stops now.
Not to mention restoring parental… pic.twitter.com/kVt1cccDQ7
— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) February 15, 2025
Democrats have reacted with outrage, with Sen. Patty Murray calling the order “unconscionable.” However, Trump’s executive action reflects a broader rejection of government-imposed COVID-19 mandates, which have faced increasing criticism for infringing on personal freedoms.
This executive order is another example of Trump following through on promises to prioritize American liberties over bureaucratic control. Schools that continue to push mandates will now have to decide whether their ideology is worth the loss of federal dollars.
