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Jen Psaki says politicians should NOT decide if schools have mask mandates and dismisses concerns they could cause emotional damage to kids because her kindergartener daughter would 'wear one all day'

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, in a dig at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said Friday politicians should not make decisions about school mask mandates, and dismissed concerns of 'emotional damage' of young children wearing masks all day. 

'I want public health officials to make decisions about how to keep my kids safe, not politicians,' Psaki said after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned schools from instituting mask mandates for students. 

 'Not only is Gov. DeSantis not abiding by public health decisions, he is fundraising off of this.'

Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Psaki if she was worried about 'harmful emotional damage and psychological effects' making young children mask up in school could have, as DeSantis has highlighted experts who say this could be the case. 

'No,' the press secretary said. 'I will tell you from personal experience my rising kindergartener told me two days ago she could wear a mask all day. She's just happy to go to camp and go to school.' 

'Parents in Florida, parents across the country, should have the ability and the knowledge that their kids are going to school and they're in safe environments that shouldn't be too much to ask,' she added. 

Psaki specifically cited Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan - for their work.

Hutchinson said recently he regretted signing a law banning local mask mandates. Maryland has a 78% vaccination rate and Hogan was one of the first governors in America to require face masking.

Meanwhile, White House and DeSantis have traded barbs all week after the governor directed schools to break from guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and leave the choice up to parents whether they send their kids to school wearing a mask. 

'I want public health officials to make decisions about how to keep my kids safe, not politicians,' the press secretary, above, told reporters on Friday

'I want public health officials to make decisions about how to keep my kids safe, not politicians,' the press secretary, above, told reporters on Friday

DeSantis has threatened to withhold funds from Florida school districts if they mandate that students wear face coverings. He said the new CDC recommendations for masks in classrooms 'lacks' scientific justification. 

DeSantis, who is running for a second term in the gubernatorial mansion in next year's election and is seen as a possible 2014 presidential candidate, has blasted out at least two fundraising emails this week, touting his COVID stance.  

After the White House called on DeSantis to 'get out of the way' of public health measures, DeSantis shot back to Biden: 'Why don't you do your job' to curb a rise in migrants at the southern border. 

Biden, when he was asked his response to DeSantis' criticism replied 'Governor who?' and then chuckled. 

Amid rising cases due to the Delta variant of Covid-19 the CDC did an about-face and said that in high-risk areas - which is much of the country - even vaccinated people should mask up in public. It also recommended universal masking in schools. 

This prompted cries from some that telling vaccinated people they still needed to wear masks could undermine perceptions of the jab's efficacy. 

On Friday Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., wrote a letter, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, to CDC director Rochelle Walensky asking that the CDC release the data it used to come to the latest recommendation. 

'After 15 months of abiding by public health safety guidelines, vaccinated Americans were able to rejoice and to return to some semblance of normalcy. However, the CDC has elicited increasing confusion with its recent reversal, failing to be fully transparent with the data it is using to amend its latest mask guidance,' the letter read. 

The CDC had cited a recent outbreak in Barnstable, Mass., where following the July 4th weekend there were 469 cases of Covid-19-- 74% among fully vaccinated people and most showing symptoms.  Garbarino's letter noted that a different study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found the rate of breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated people is less than one percent. 

'Furthermore, the concept that children must now wear face coverings while attending school ignores and rejects available scientific data on the issue, given that countless studies have shown that children experience lower infection and transmission rates than adults,' the New York Republican wrote.  

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has banned schools from requiring face masks. Meanwhile Victoria Dickens wears a mask and face shield as she waits for her class assignment at Summit Elementary School in Summit, Miss., on Thursday, during the first day of the 2021-22 school year for students in the McComb School District. The school district is requiring face masks on buses and campuses this school year

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has banned schools from requiring face masks. Meanwhile Victoria Dickens wears a mask and face shield as she waits for her class assignment at Summit Elementary School in Summit, Miss., on Thursday, during the first day of the 2021-22 school year for students in the McComb School District. The school district is requiring face masks on buses and campuses this school year

Ron DeSantis, above, who is running for a second term in the gubernatorial mansion in next year's election and is seen as a possible 2014 presidential candidate, has blasted out at least two fundraising emails this week, touting his anti-COVID restriction stance

Ron DeSantis, above, who is running for a second term in the gubernatorial mansion in next year's election and is seen as a possible 2014 presidential candidate, has blasted out at least two fundraising emails this week, touting his anti-COVID restriction stance

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona also warned Thursday there could be more closures if the war over face masks in schools continues.

'I'm worried that the decisions that are being made, that are not putting students at the center and student health and safety at the center, is going to be why schools may be disrupted. We know what to do,' he said.     

 'We can either have a free society or we can have a biomedical security state,' DeSantis said about coronavirus restrictions.

'And I can tell you, Florida, we're a free state. People are going to be free to choose.' 

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